The community is characterised by high levels of poverty, insecurity and inadequate access to basic social services.
A series of constraints – including low income and food insecurity, recurring shocks, and inadequate access to basic social services such as health, education and sanitation – limit families' capacity and ability to take care of their children.
Some are homeless, others live in housing that is unaffordable or grossly inadequate, without security of tenure or access to basic services.
The urban poor in developing nations lack access to basic services, including access to clean water.
Many poor, rural families also lack access to basic services such as medical facilities.
The United Nations (UNISDR 2015c, p. 1) points out that people with disabilities are disproportionately affected "due to a range of factors including exclusion from decision-making processes, often poor living conditions, inadequate infrastructure, income inequality or undiversified sources of income, and limited access to basic services, especially education and information".
While South Africa's 1996 constitution guarantees equity in access to basic services, many in the poorer districts lack basic services, such as sanitation.
Access to basic services is limited.
