Bhaktapur, Nepal – between cracked floors and walls that peel a juvenile correction house, Khan, 21, finds refuge in a book of stories. Seventeen others lean around him in the 12 by 16 feet room designed for half of this number of people. The stench of the neighboring toilets is suspended in the air. Khan, … Read more
Villa Fiorito, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina – When Paola Valenzuela wakes up to a stench and her daughters’ noises described themselves, she knows that wastewater have again completed the pipe system in the neighborhood and in her toilet. She cannot bring him back. This happens about every two weeks, sometimes more – each time … Read more
MUTARE, ZIMBABWE — Plena James Poroto vividly remembers her joy when she moved into her new home in 1995, in a newly commissioned apartment building in the Old Location area of Sakubva, a high-density suburb of this eastern border town. The new apartments were part of the national government’s response to a growing need for … Read more