Sentence examples for slums there from inspiring English sources

(I'm trying to find out if electricity access in slums there has improved since then; tips welcome).

She first got an inkling of what would be her life's work as a girl in Leeds, when her mother took her on mercy missions to the poor in the woeful slums there.

The public sector is weakest in sub-Saharan Africa, and slums there are one of our planet's greatest challenges.

The slums there were worse than anything you could see in India in terms of filth and the low level of hygiene.

Due to the extreme poverty in the slums there are interrelated issues like insecurity, high mobility of the population, lack of infrastructure, multi-morbidity and local politics that have the potential to jeopardize the project.

Whatever the local name for slums, there are a lot of them and they are growing fast.

Mr. Zhang was a member of Beijing's art underground in the 1990s, living in the squatter slum there called the East Village.

"If we don't do something, don't get some commercial developers involved, get infrastructure up and running, and have the land rights sorted out, there is going to be a slum there no matter what," she said.

Sanitation proponents can no longer just work in a village here or a slum there.

Within Bangkok's Klong Toey slum, there is one area relatively free of stinking refuse.

Chandra's stylish, worldly prose attains a Tarantinoesque rapture when it describes Gaitonde severing an arm with a sword, slashing at a human eye with a razor blade, or burning, in an "elegant way," a slum: "There is the crisp tinkle of glass and the small sparking flares now bloom into flowing rivers that run smoothly across rooftops, down walls, into windows.