The cases reviewed in this paper record diversity and the variety of local authority-driven initiatives that enhance the lives of slum dwellers. A multifaceted strategy is required by acting on a variety of challenges. Infrastructure is a part that is dominant. This represents the priority put on accessibility to services. Water supply is a particularly significant problem for girls and women who in many cultures have been assigned the job of bringing water to the household. Transportation‚ drainage
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Disparities in Wealth and Development The eight Millennium Development Goals are: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger: MDG is trying to cut the number of people living off $1 in half. Overall poverty rates fell from 46% in 1990 to 27% in 2005 in developing regions‚ and progress in many developing countries is being sustained. 2. Achieve universal primary education: MDG is trying to increase the number of educated people in the world. They state that they think this goal will
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work to those children and it was his goal to inform readers that slums were in fact in existence and the children who resided there did not deserve to live in such a poverty-stricken area. The question "Why should their childhood be different from others across the country?" arose often and needs to be examined by all. In some ways the stories‚ accounts and tales of these inner city children were shocking. I was aware that slums existed‚ but knew nothing of how they functioned‚ what living conditions
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opportunities for improving economically has called the rapid growth of its population and as a consequences created a housing problem. To cope with the need to survive in a city has led to the sprouting of squatter settlements which eventually developed into slums. This conditions are characterized by overcrowding and squalor. (Panopio‚
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underprivileged and undeserved population. Initially‚ there were eight components of MNP a. Elementary education b. Rural Health. c. Rural Water Supply. d. Rural Electrification. e. Rural Roads. f. Nutrition. g. Environmental improvement of Urban Slums. h. Houses for landless labourers. While adult education was added to the list of MNP components in the Sixth Plan. rural domestic energy‚ rural sanitation and public distribution system were added during the Seventh Plan. There are two basic
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Life In The Slums Plan Intro: Life is tough living in the slums‚ but I ’m used to it now so it ’s not as hard as it was when we first moved here. Especially considering we were looking to come to the city for a better lifestyle‚ and to have a better chance for my parents to get a job‚ and for my siblings and I to go to school. My name is Anikal and I ’m 13‚ I have 3 older brothers‚ and one younger sister. Para 1: living conditions and hygiene and population density Moved to Mumbai 4 years
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Kunal Kothari Brazilian Film and Lit Professor Nascimento August 8‚ 2012 Final Exam 1b) The Slum: The Slum‚ which was written by Aluisio Azevedo is a book centered on a slum called Sao Romao‚ its inhabitants‚ and the people who live close by to this slum. The book takes place in this slum where there are many people with different backgrounds and ethnicities who live there‚ and they all have their own stories to tell. Throughout this story the author‚ Azevedo‚ presents the audience with
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The Slums of Manila: Cutting-Edge Poverty? Because of the industrial revolution‚ the invention of the automobile‚ and the consequent development of freeways‚ cities worldwide have expanded into the countryside. As though it were a conspiracy of the automobile and fuel industry‚ the government‚ and private developers‚ suburbanization even now continues to damage the city. It has not only affected the physical fabric‚ but has also significantly affected the lives of its people. Most importantly
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the New World. Aluísio Azevedo depicts the conflict and synergism of the mixing of these two worlds in The Slum. The Slum is the story of a neighborhood where members of both worlds collide‚ forced to interact with one another and it becomes a microcosm of the entire country. The characters in this community each represent a facet of the two worlds. By looking at each character and the slum itself‚ it is possible to decipher Brazil. To gain status in Brazil there is a need to create the right impression
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Slums of Two Different sides of the World There are many similarities between Meirelles’s City of God‚ released in 2003 in Brazil and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire‚ released in 2008 in the United Kingdom‚ at the most the two films being comparable of main characters. These similarities are two different by two different sides of the world and how the main characters get out of the slums. These both films have a positive outcomes but have had rough upcoming to get out of the ghetto. The first
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