The Slum

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As a birth at­ten­dant ad­vo­cat­ing for fam­i­ly plan­ning, Remy is on the front­line of Ton­do’s bat­tle with over­crowd­ing.

Published On 19 Sep 2014
Video Duration 47 minutes 32 seconds

Find lo­cal broad­cast times for Al Jazeera’s se­ries about Ton­do, a set­tle­ment in Mani­la.

Published On 15 Sep 2014

Four­teen-year-old Resh­mi is box­ing her way out of the red light dis­trict where she was raised.

Published On 10 Sep 2014

Time has stood still for the res­i­dents of the Mae La refugee camp decades af­ter they fled their homes in Myan­mar.

Published On 10 Sep 2014

They dream of a per­ma­nent home in Eu­rope but many mi­grants end up strand­ed in in­for­mal refugee set­tle­ments.

Published On 10 Sep 2014

The baale of Makoko is chal­leng­ing neg­a­tive stereo­types of La­gos’ eco­nom­i­cal­ly pro­duc­tive over­wa­ter set­tle­ment.

Published On 10 Sep 2014

A young en­tre­pre­neur uses the skills he ac­quired as a scav­enger to de­liv­er hope and op­por­tu­ni­ty to his neigh­bours.

Published On 10 Sep 2014

A gang mem­ber from the world’s largest slum ex­plains why his real bat­tle is against every­day dis­crim­i­na­tion.

Published On 10 Sep 2014

Res­i­dents of a Bedouin vil­lage en­cir­cled by chem­i­cal fac­to­ries and a waste fa­cil­i­ty face a tick­ing health time bomb.

Published On 10 Sep 2014