From Connecticut to Kenya, fundraising is changing lives. It started when a local veteran made a trip to the African country in December. Now one act of kindness has evolved, and has the potential to ...

Elizabeth Ross Johnson and a Cambodian partner shared a goal of saving children. After she died, their dreams imploded.

Outside her home in the Lagos slum of Makoko, Esther Ikechukwu stacks two upturned buckets, places a handbag on top and rests a tablet against it. Her balancing act finished, the desk and the ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Children born to mothers who move to informal settlements while pregnant are likely to die before they reach four years ...

Doctor Giuseppe Bolotta is an Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at the Ca Foscari University of Venice. He is also a Research ...

In Kawangare, one of the many “informal settlements” – or slums – in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Jane is often worried about the ...

One in every four children living in Nairobi’s urban informal settlements has lost a parent, a new report has revealed. This ratio is even higher in Korogocho slums where almost one in every three ...

Hazeena looked pale and hungry when she came to a kindergarten managed by Catholic nuns in a southern Indian state. A few months earlier, the 7-year-old girl was seen helping her parents in the ...

AXA Mansard Health has offered free health insurance to 100 children from the Chess in Slum community. According to the underwriter, the gesture is to demonstrate its belief that quality healthcare ...

The civil surgeons were directed to visit these areas personally and supervise the progress of the campaign on the ground ...

That’s not to say that this film, directed by Maren R. Monsen and Nicole Newnham, is irrepressibly rosy. It spends three years tracking four children, and the stories don’t all end happily. Of course, ...

A drone strike in Haiti's Cité Soleil, allegedly by police, killed at least eight children and injured six others during a gathering organized by suspected gang leader Albert Steevenson. Rights groups ...