It is not the case that slums undermine prosperity, not the working slums they help create prosperity.

There are many slums in Mexico.

Charles Leadbeater Education innovation in the slums

The problem of slums could not be eliminated overnight and long term plans were necessary, but poverty was the root cause of slums.

So there are schools in slums like this.

This innovation is from the slums of Rio.

Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums.

They're private schools. There are no state schools in slums.

In the urban slums, the girls tend to stay away.

This is Kibera, Kenya, one of the largest slums of Africa.

Now, Mathare Valley is one of the oldest slums in Africa.

The first thing that we did was walk through the slums.

This is Kibera, Kenya, one of the largest slums of Africa.

Social capital in the slums is at its most urban and dense.

Urban development promoting jobs, upgrading slums and developing alternatives to new slum formation

Urban slums and their youth are the front line for any such efforts.

I was with my friend Susan Meiselas, the photographer, in the Mathare Valley slums.

We walked through these slums, identified houses where children would never go to school.

There is also this myth that children from the slums cannot integrate with mainstream.

Presentation and discussion on Slums of the world Trends and facts of MDG Target 11 on slums (organized by the Monitoring Systems Branch, UN Habitat, in collaboration with the International Institute for Geo Information Science and Earth Observation (Netherlands))

Presentation and discussion on Slums of the world Trends and facts of MDG Target 11 on slums (organized by the Monitoring Systems Branch, UN Habitat, in collaboration with the International Institute for Geo Information Science and Earth Observation (Netherlands))

But they know there is this myth that children from the slums cannot speak English well.

At the same time, urban poverty, especially in developing countries, resulted in the expansion of slums.

UN Habitat research priorities address the following issues slums and urban poverty, secure tenure, market eviction and gentrification, rental housing within slums and the implications for slum upgrading, housing rights, and natural disasters or conflict, as well as gender equality in housing access.

You know, by the way, there are two million people in Bangalore, who live in 800 slums.

We couldn't go to all the slums, but we tried to cover as much as we could.

And most of that growth is not in the cities, but in the slums that surround them.

Joint programming was being discussed in areas of common interest such as marginalized populations and urban slums.

Even in the slums of India more than 50 percent of urban kids are going into private schools.

So in a town like Mumbai, which is half slums, it's 1 6th of the GDP of India.

In spite of this, early marriage continued to be practised widely, especially in rural villages and urban slums.

45 percent of the 14 million people who live in Delhi live in unauthorized slums, which are chronically overcrowded.

Indicators 17 ( Proportion of births attended by skilled health ) and 32 ( Slums ) are not at all relevant in Finland.

In six years now, we have four schools, one junior college, 1,100 children coming from 28 slums and four orphanages.

And these vaccinators, these volunteers, they have got to dive headlong into some of the toughest, densest urban slums in the world.

This is a photo I took standing on the rooftops of one of the largest slums in the world in Mumbai, India.

Pockets of extreme poverty within countries are common in all regions which include geographically inaccessible areas, remote rural communities and urban slums.

At the same time, focus on slums and youth at risk must not lose sight of broader issues of youth and development.

He was actually living in the Kibera slums when his father called him and told him about Artemisia and the value add potential.

And together they started a book club for a hundred people in the slums, and they're reading many TED authors and liking it.

One big difference in the villages, as opposed to the urban slums there were more girls than boys who came to the kiosk.

In the 2004 programme plan and management review, UN Habitat reported on an innovative initiative aimed at promoting the Millennium Development Goal on slums.

The programme is currently being implemented through 70,000 LHWs and 3,000 Lady supervisors nationwide mainly in rural areas and urban slums of the country.

That's why in June of this year, we passed, as a species, 51 percent of us living in cities, and bustees, and slums, and shantytowns.

The slum upgrading programme continues to constitute a path breaking process, in which each stage contributes significantly towards achieving the Millennium Declaration target on slums.