Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Sight unseen



(Thanks: Urban Prankster.)

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The "new poverty"

Cities Deal With a Surge in Shanty Towns

While encampments and street living have always been a part of the landscape in big cities like Los Angeles and New York, these new tent cities have taken root -- or grown from smaller enclaves of the homeless as more people lose jobs and housing -- in such disparate places as Nashville, Olympia, Wash., and St. Petersburg, Fla.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

"Urban slums are the world's fastest-growing human habitat."

Take a long look . . .

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt

The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.

"When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day," Charlene said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking even thinner than the slim 6 pounds 3 ounces he weighed at birth.