She photographed toffs and people in slums, she photographedthe famous and the unknown, those in great distress and those full of gladness and success, and she saw beyond richness, poverty, status and the lack of it, to the human heart.
Now she works for the organisation, like Kanta, reaching out to women living in slums and on pavements.
In the dense city and slums, sanitation often means open defecation, the use of bags or chamber pots emptied into rubbish heaps or canals, or the construction of crude, shallow pit latrines – everywhere and anywhere.
"[Foundation director] Catalina Escobar has an amazing story of how she got involved with devoting her life to pregnant teens in the slums.
Shivaji Nagar is a government-planned resettlement colony where poor Muslim and Dalit communities from slums in the city at large were relocated in the 1980s.
Most people who live in the world's great slums are development refugees".
His chief accuser is journalist Horacio Verbitsky, whose book El Silencio paints a disquieting picture of Bergoglio's relationship with the priests who sought his protection when they felt their lives were in danger from the military because of their social work in the slums.
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Sanergy, an organisation that focuses on improving sanitation in urban slums in Nairobi, is working with agricultural start-up AgriProtein to recycle human faeces into animal feed via insects.
Among the most vulnerable are older people and poorer people, many of whom live in slums or farm huts with no access to air conditioners or sometimes even trees which could cast shade.
Squalor was, moreover, existent in the West End as well as the East, and he had seen sweating dens, slums, and over-crowded dwellings in the purlieus of Covent Garden, within a few yards of the palatial mansions of Piccadilly, and near the wealthy shops of Bond Street.
