Sentence examples for impoverished settlements from inspiring English sources
Today, Cochabamba is ringed by dozens of barrios marginales — dusty, impoverished settlements that have sprung up to house the newcomers.
By the mid-1970s a multitiered "poverty belt"—a ring of impoverished settlements largely populated by poorer rural migrants—had sprung up to encircle the city.
Three families from cramped, impoverished settlements at the foot of Jaraguá peak have already taken up residence in the new village, named Tekoa Itakupé, which is flanked on one side by forest and on the other by the community's crops.
Back in the 1980s it was an impoverished settlement of dirt streets and one-storey shacks built of grey concrete blocks.
Diepsloot, an impoverished settlement on the northern edge of Johannesburg, has an estimated population of 150,000, and the closest police station is 10 miles away.
The importance and influence of non-farming activities are quite different in the small impoverished pastoral settlements compared with the large pastoral settlements.
Dumped in labour camps or impoverished rural settlements, they were forced to work on meagre rations, and perished in large numbers from sickness and malnutrition.
That world is broadly referred to as the Cape Flats, and constitutes the range of largely impoverished informal settlements and townships that sprawl beyond the city proper.
"Gypsy," a fictional portrait of an impoverished Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia, offers a mostly depressing picture of a marginalized Middle European culture living in squalor.
In 1987, a young physician named Paul Farmer and a small group of friends founded an organization called Partners in Health, and they set out to build a clinic in an impoverished squatter settlement of central Haiti.
By Tracy Kidder January 19 , 2010In 1987, a young physician named Paul Farmer and a small group of friends founded an organization called Partners in Health, and they set out to build a clinic in an impoverished squatter settlement of central Haiti.
