Decades after inspiring a best-selling novel that brought readers into slums near Kolkata, 86-year-old ascetic Gaston Dayanand is still working for India’s poorest. His...
#Floating #toilets #Cambodias #lakedwelling #poor Pointing to the murky waters of the Tonle Sap, Si Vorn fights back tears as she recalls her four-year-old...
#timeline #unrest #poor #president #ousted Deadly protests have gripped Peru since Congress threw out the country’s first working-class president, Pedro Castillo, in December after...
#heroin #derivative #ravaging #Ecuadors #poor Shaking and delirious, Rina ambles half-dressed beside a dump in Ecuador’s port city of Guayaquil. She is under the...
#Peru #court #orders #demolition #Wall #Shame #dividing #rich #poor Peru’s Constitutional Court has ordered the demolition of a wall that separates a rich neighborhood...
#Pedro #Castillo #Perus #poor #president #ousted #corruption #charges When he was elected president of Peru last year, rural school teacher Pedro Castillo was the...
#choice #cholera #water #Lebanons #poor Marwa Khaled’s teenage son was hospitalised with cholera after drinking polluted water in Lebanon’s impoverished north — yet she...
Cholera, which has made a comeback in Haiti three years after a devastating outbreak, is a highly contagious waterborne bacterial disease that can kill...
Mario Conte’s Salerno soup kitchen serves 140 hot meals every day but as soaring inflation hits Italy’s poverty-stricken south, he is struggling to keep...