Time – whose side are you on?
Posted by Letty Fajardo and Frank van SteenbergenDecember 30, 2015 As the New Year starts it is good to reflect … Continued
Authors: Luwieke Bosma, Lucia Moreno Spiegelberg and Gauthier Dobigny. Good day! My name is Rova and I live in Ankasina, a neighbourhood of Antananarivo, the capital city of our beautiful island Madagascar! I guess you would describe our neighbourhood as a slum, but we call it here “bas-quartier”, meaning the “lowland district. This name has a history: in the past, the kings and queens, their court and the rich and powerful people lived in the higher parts of the land. While poor workers were cultivating rice in these floodable, lower parts of the country to feed them. Today, most of poor areas of Antananarivo lie within these lowlands that still get flooded nowadays, as you can see in the pictures. Many of the “bas-quartiers” consist of informal and very vulnerable settlements, mostly inhabited by poor families which usually have very limited access to jobs, education or health. They are highly insalubrious. Figure 1 These photos show the poverty levels and… Continued
Posted by Letty Fajardo and Frank van SteenbergenDecember 30, 2015 As the New Year starts it is good to reflect … Continued
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Posted by Frank van SteenbergenNovember 2, 2015“It is a big shame… one’s eldest daughter having to defecate in the field”. … Continued
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Posted by Madiha Al-Junaid (with inputs from Brett Scott) September 10, 2015 Summer, the season of generous skies which is … Continued
by Madiha al-JunaidAugust 11, 2015 In a previous blog, a gardener was observed watering the plants at the airport area, … Continued
By Frank van SteenbergenJuly 16, 2015 Picture 1: Pond, Yimwaar, Kenya Are things getting better in the world? You wonder … Continued
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By Madiha Al-Junaid (edited by Brett Scot)July 9, 2015 As if it was not enough for Yemen to live through … Continued
By Abraham Mehari Haile, Eyasu Yazew Hagos and Frank van SteenbergenJuly 2, 2015 Picture 1: Bench terraces (Own image) … Continued
By Madiha Al-Junaid (edited by Brett Scot)June 18, 2015 It is not an uncommon sight: Children, women, the elderly, and … Continued
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