Sentence examples for overcrowded settlements from inspiring English sources

Refugees often live in overcrowded settlements, suffer from malnutrition, can be highly mobile to their country of origin and into urban centres and frequently receive care from ad hoc and under-resourced health service providers [ 4].

By the meeting's end, the situation report was bleak: Like the capital's overcrowded settlements for displaced people, the modest homes of host families in this rural region are under increasing duress.

But there is now an acute shortage of safe water and adequate sanitation with the influx of 100,000 people this year into Mogadishu, bringing the total number of displaced people in the capital to 470,000 with many living in overcrowded settlements.

Since the onset of the conflict in South Sudan in December 2013, close to 1.5 million people, mostly women and children, have been displaced from their homes and are now living in remote areas without access to basic services or in overcrowded settlements where the lack of privacy and unhygienic conditions threatens their health and security.

Superimposed on this earlier urban pattern was that generated by the Industrial Revolution notably in the south and northeast, where unplanned, overcrowded urban settlements sprang up in zones where coal deposits were being rapidly exploited.

In Nairobi, severely overcrowded informal settlements inhabited by more than half of the city's population are extremely vulnerable to landslides, fires, flooding, and structural collapses.

An estimated one billion live in poor, overcrowded informal settlements and this population is expected to double in the coming 20 years.

The faeces are washed into nearby streams and open sewers that flow along the shanties in the overcrowded urban informal settlements, and can lead to contamination of drinking water, hence, increased infections and indeed, higher prevalence.

However, the conflict which started in December 2013 pushed hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, forcing them to seek shelter in overcrowded camps and settlements, often without access to clean water and in poor hygiene conditions.

But the reality is that one person in every five living in a town or city today does not have access to a toilet or good sanitation and many live in poverty in overcrowded, rapidly expanding informal settlements.

They must manage menstruation in overcrowded camps and informal settlements, which often lack private and safe toilets and sanitation facilities (especially at night) for changing and for washing materials (Kågesten et al. 2017; Parker et al. 2014; Schmitt et al. 2017; Sommer 2012).