Find Me Unafraid: Love‚ Loss and Hope in an African Slum is a 2015 nonfiction memoir by Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner. Kennedy‚ a Kenyan born in the slums‚ and Jessica‚ a privileged white American from Colorado‚ tell the story of their meeting‚ romance‚ and eventual collaboration to build schools and bring change to the slums of Kibera. The title is taken from a line in the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley: “And yet the menace of the years / Finds and shall find me unafraid.” Kennedy
Premium African American Southern United States English-language films
In Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo‚ hope is a main central idea in the book. The purpose of the text is to show the tension between religion‚ power‚ sex and caste. Annawadi‚ a slum in India is filled with many children being born in already impoverished. One of these individuals includes Abdul‚ a young boy who scrambles through the garbage of upperclassman to recycle and sell for money. These individuals like Abdul‚ have hope in every circumstance to always look further than what they
Premium Woman Gender Marriage
Living Conditions in Australia at the turn of the 20th Century. Life in Australia at the turn of the 20th Century was dangerous especially for the lower class‚ the terrible slum conditions made life difficult and hygiene was not regularly practiced‚ life was a constant battle against all sorts of infectious diseases‚ and yet the City Council did little to nothing at all to improve these conditions. Life was even worse when the unsanitary environment became accompanied by the Bubonic Plague‚ though
Premium Poverty Epidemiology United Kingdom
How does the notion of harm reveal entangled relationships between social welfare and crime control? The concept of harm is a complex one‚ The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines the term as “hurt‚ damage‚ cause harm to” (Allen‚1990‚P.539). In a physical sense harm can be defined and characterised by damage caused from a war or a natural phenomenon that inflicts considerable damage upon an individual‚ community or nation. The notion of harm has characterised humanity since the dawn of its existence
Premium Poverty Chernobyl disaster Sociology
................................................. 9 Slum Survey and Mapping – using GIS‚ Total station surveys‚ and GPS .......................... 10 3.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 10 3.2 Objectives ............................................................................................................................ 10 3.3 Slum survey procedure ....................................
Premium Remote sensing Geographic information system Map
damage because of the extreme poverty and social and environment in stead of being centers of commerce and industry. In this article I will discuss the problem of slum clearance in Mumbai‚ India. I am interested in poor people in urban area. First I will refer about population growth which is related to urban problem. Second‚ I suggest that slum clearance is not good enough for solving the problem. Third‚ as a conclusion‚ I suggest that India government should keep providing various kinds of social services
Premium Air pollution Poverty Surface runoff
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI DEPARTMENT OF REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT Housing Policy Assignment NAME: KIMOSOP KEMBOI ANTHONY EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS A. Squatter Settlement and Homelessness The term squatter is defined is obtained from squat which means to live‚ build on‚ utilize‚ a property of a person without his concern and his approval or without any document of ownership like allotment letter‚ lease letter or the Title Deed. Dictionary.com defines a squatter as a person
Premium Management University Psychology
Urbanization & Environmental Degradation Analysis By Anupam Rozario - 26 Anupam Gogoi – 27 Anupam Verma – 28 ABSTRACT Urbanization refers to general increase in population and the amount of industrialization of a settlement. It includes increase in the number and extent of cities. It symbolizes the movement of people from rural to urban areas. Urbanization happens because of the increase in the extent and density of urban areas. Due to uncontrolled urbanization in India
Premium Urban area Urbanization Metropolitan area
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT-A WALK ALONG THE INDIAN PAVEMENTS CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2. INTRODUCTION 3. A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT -statistics supporting the unemployment figures -comparison of India with the rest of the world 4. MY COUNTRY OF CONCERN: INDIA 5. ISSUES: THE WHAT ASPECT 6. PROPOSALS OF ACTION 7. CONCLUSION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The main aim of the essay is to draw
Premium Unemployment
India’s Challenges in the 21st Century Towards a more Equitable‚ Inclusive and Sustainable India India Facts and Achievements India is a country of continental proportions and rich cultural heritage. The civilizational history of India goes back to more than 5000 years. In ancient times India was considered as one of the leading lights of the world and its glory was spread far and wide all across the corners of the earth. Throughout its history‚ India has evolved and reinvented herself. India
Premium India