But she says the Mathari slum alone has more than three hundred thousand children of school age.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Diana Atieno Tujuh volunteers as a teacher at the Saint Christine's Community Center in the Kibera slum, one of the largest in Africa.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

It was a lonely fight. But his camera and fighting words helped to get a law passed which would destroy the Mulberry Bend slum.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

The other side of the picture was that many people were fat and some of these belonged to the poorest section of that slum."

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Riis started a personal war against slum houses, the sort he saw in Mulberry Bend.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

She says one slum in Nairobi,Mathari,has only about three public primary schools nearby.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

It was a terrible slum -- as such places are called -- where too many are crowded together, where the houses and streets are dirty and full of rats.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

The slum housing was gone.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

In a sprawling slum in the Indian capital, has only the most basic amenities in his one room tenement a single electric bulb,and a fan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

By the hundreds, Tampa's cigar factories closed, and Ybor City became a blighted slum.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

She cannot authenticate her address, because she lives in an illegal slum.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Over the years, Salem deteriorated and,by the 1950s,it was a slum.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18