Word: slum
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...Still, Bono keeps working. During a visit to a school in an Accra slum, a teenage girl asks him to sing, something he rarely does in public away from the concert stage. But this time he makes an exception. Leading scores of children, his hoarse voice unleashes the chorus of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." And the tour rolls...
...rushes around the production's South London offices dispensing advice and suggestions. "Producing someone else's work is a joy, and I can bring quite a bit to the party," he enthuses. In the main rehearsal room, around 40 casually clad actors are ready for daybreak in a Bombay slum. This, notes Lloyd Webber, is the show's opening: "You see the sunrise, Bombay slowly comes to life." The sequence is thrilling, with one man loudly selling chaya (tea), two women praying silently at a shrine, street sweepers, everywhere individual characters convincingly integrated into a complex society - all underscored...
...eighth major goal is to improve the lives of 100 million “slum dwellers?...
...shores. What Arroyo needs is a bulwark. But without an electoral mandate, the only source is massive public support, the kind more likely to respond to image and inspiration than intellect. To her credit, she has tried. On several occasions, she's traveled to Tondo, a rank, perilously crowded slum that has essentially been Manila's garbage dump for a decade. On her first visit, she was greeted with boos and pro-Estrada chants. Instead of fleeing, though, she scrambled ahead of her security detail and climbed the cramped stairwells to the squalid apartments and landings from which the voices...
...Rumors of extortion rackets and political manipulation are rife and any justice meted out is arbitrary. On a recent rainy night in Jakarta, hundreds of adherents to one of the most powerful fundamentalist groups, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), cram into trucks and minivans and head for a slum on the west side of the city. Men are huddled under a blue tent playing ceki, a kind of poker. They scatter as the squad, brandishing clubs and machetes, marches in. But as FPI members smash tables and chairs and then start pulling down the tents, some locals turn and jeer...