Sustainable development blog : ecology and humanitarian aid

Translated from Kiva, le microcrédit solidaire by Valerie Kwan.

Today, just under three billion women and men live on less than two dollars a day. More than a billion people go hungry every day, a deplorable record reached in 2009 according to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Nearly all of the world's

Translated by Vanessa Morrell from De Caracas aux Barrios de Petare, à la découverte d’une autre réalité.

The word “shanty town” takes a new shape and form as we visit the South American continent. Its omnipresence is so crucial to our understanding, that its name even takes a different shape as we cross borders. Chabola, villamiseria, favelas in Brazil, we call them barrios in Venezuela. The term originates from the word “quarter” in academic Castilian speak, but now holds an entire new sense in Chavez’ Bolivarian Republic. 

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