As Bangladesh’s Population Grows, Slum Dwellers Struggle For Clean Water Access Mar 22, 2011 8:01 PM EDT ...

Urban slums in Dhaka continue to reflect the stark reality of food insecurity and malnutrition faced by the city’s ...

Workers for a local aid group reflect on poverty, health and a recent forced eviction in the slums of Bangladesh. Skip to main content. WBUR. 90.0 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station.

In Bangladesh’s slums, residents often lack reliable access to safe drinking water. By Sakib Imtiaz. December 30, 2016. A woman drinks from a safe water supply system at Tetultola Slum, Tongi ...

With extreme heat episodes becoming more frequent, a team of women is teaching people living in a Barishal slum how to cope ...

Dec. 13, 2010— -- In the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, even the simple act of giving your child a glass of water requires an act of faith. Parvin, a mother of four, knows this all too well.

More than 10,000 people have been left homeless after a massive fire engulfed a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, destroying thousands of shanties, according to Bangladeshi officials.

Hundreds of shanties were destroyed in the Rupnagar slum in the city’s Mirpur area, witnesses said. As many as 150 firefighters scrambled to get access to enough water and battled for three ...

GlobalPost Looks at Dhaka, Bangladesh, Which the U.N. Predicts Will Be Home to 20 Million People in 2025. ... Cities -- even slum cities -- use energy more efficiently than villages do, ...

COLONIE -- Ali Horton, a doctoral student in geography at Rutgers University, was researching the Internet for a summer internship a few months back, when she stumbled upon two opportunities to ...

More than 10,000 people have been left homeless after a massive fire engulfed a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, destroying thousands of shanties, according to Bangladeshi officials.