When you close your eyes and think of India, what do you see? For far too many Western tourists, the image is unfairly ...

A report by the Ghana Statistical Service revealed that about 4.82 million Ghanaians, roughly 30.8 per cent of the urban ...

In the heart of Mumbai's sprawling slum, Dharavi, in its narrow but resilient alleys, one man is stitching dreams into leather. The story of Jameel Shah is nothing short of extraordinary.

On a hot Wednesday afternoon in Monrovia, while most children were tucked away in classrooms, 10-year-old Kebbeh Johnson and 12-year-old Telema Zayzay sat on a cracked sidewalk in Buzzy Quarter, one ...

Displaced by climate disasters, poverty, or personal tragedy, Dhaka’s streets serve as the only homes for those without shelter ...

Most residents of Nairobi’s slums live in extreme poverty, meaning they exist on just a couple of dollars a day. With such meager earnings, the increasing cost of living in recent years has made life ...

Latest World Bank figures point to a sharp decline in the ratio of extreme poverty in India. It fell to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in 2011-12, with 269 million individuals lifted out of such ...

Dubai: From the suffocating poverty of Manila ’s slums to the dazzling lights of Dubai’s World Trade Center, Jenny Raet’s journey is nothing short of a miracle. As a six-year-old, she ...

Educator Ananthi Jebasingh received the Colson Center s Wilberforce Award, recognizing the impact she has made over the ...

A comprehensive new study reveals how poverty reduction efforts are struggling to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable communities in Kathmandu's slum areas, particularly in Ward No. 14 of ...

A well-wisher sponsored him to school, snatching him from the unforgiving hands of slum poverty, crime and drug and thankfully, he devoted himself to studies, scaling his way to top echelon of ...

I’m the head of CFK Africa, a nongovernmental organization that empowers youth and fights extreme poverty in Kenyan slums.