At Mary Simkhovitch’s Greenwich House, well-off Americans moved in with immigrants and helped them get their start.

Jesse Jackson's death at 84 brings reflections on his enduring legacy, from inspiring youth with hope to his pivotal role in ...

This is a look inside one of the largest informal settlements in the world, located in Pakistan. Home to hundreds of thousands — and in some estimates, millions — it functions as a city within a city, ...

Abstract: Slums are often found in big cities due to the increase in urban population. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program launched by the United Nations (UN) includes the issue of slums ...

Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has opened up 26 slum pockets across the city for redevelopment by inviting expressions of interest from developers. The 26 pockets include some ...

Kennedy Odede knows what poverty is. He grew up in Kibera, the largest slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. It's a place filmmakers and aid organisations visit to capture images of extreme poverty. A ...

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court (HC) on Tuesday held that slum dwellers cannot be denied basic sanitation facilities and directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to provide and maintain ...

Indian teacher and activist Rouble Nagi has been awarded the prestigious $1 million Global Teacher Prize. This accolade recognizes her remarkable efforts in establishing hundreds of learning centres ...

Using detailed surveys and machine learning computation, new research co-authored at UC Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action finds that eradicating extreme poverty would be surprisingly ...

Joshua Blumenstock has spent much of his career focused on easing the pain of poverty, project by project, in countries such as Togo, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. But with the advance of AI-driven ...

We need some good news now, and here’s some out of left field: An important new study suggests that there’s a highly effective way to overcome one of the most intractable problems in 21st-century ...

Hunger negatively impacts a student’s ability to engage and learn at school. Rising food poverty among school students across the globe is increasingly recognized as a critical factor impacting ...