Spaces for Change, a non-governmental organisation, in partnership with the Lagos State Resilience Office, is leading an initiative to address poverty among slum dwellers in the state. The organisation, also known as S4C, recently led a focus group discussion on empowering slum dwellers to quit poverty and live a better life, noting that this would go a long way in ...
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The Challenges of Living in a Slum Area
Urban populations have skyrocketed globally and today represent more than half of the world’s population. In this article, we look at the challenges of living in a slum area. In some parts of the developing world, the growth of the urban population has more-than-proportionately involved rural migration to informal settlements in and around cities, known more commonly as “slums”—densely populated ...
Read More »Urban Slums: How they are created and Why they are destroyed
Slums don’t just spring up because a certain group of people or a certain cabal is out to mess up the structure of an urban city, Slums are created by individuals to fix a dire situation. This article talks about “how slums are created in urban cities and why they are destroyed” Any society or urban city that is not ...
Read More »The Formation of Slums in a Rapidly Urbanizing World
The formation of slums in any rapidly urbanizing city is inevitable, just like it’s being witnessed in Lagos state. However the population of slum dwellers can be brought to its barest minimum if the rights steps are taking in the appropriate direction. This article talks about the link between Urbanization and slum formation. There has been evidence of large slum ...
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