Give me a shilling [videorecording]: phenomenon of the street children

Pictures of the Watoto wa Lwanga project, the efforts of the Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga not only to rehabilitate Nairobi's street children, but to prevent slum children from ending up in the streets. Features life in the slums, the situation of the street children, the efforts of the social workers to involve the children's parents, the various reception centers, the vocational school, the Boy's Town Ruai Residential School, the community of the Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga as well as interviews with former street children and with various directors and benefactors of the project.

Fala Manguinhos!: a construção de uma agência de comunicação comunitária em favelas e conjuntos habitacionais cariocas

Esta dissertação analisa a prática da Comunicação Social no Brasil, uma das questões mais importantes para a estruturação e manutenção do poder na sociedade, evidenciada, mais uma vez, com a crise institucional iniciada em 2014, que colocou o direito à produção e divulgação de informações e opiniões no centro do debate nacional. Para tanto, tomou-se como referência as condições políticas, administrativas e operacionais presentes na experiência da Agência de Comunicação Comunitária do Complexo de Manguinhos, aglomerado de favelas e conjuntos habitacionais populares da cidade do Rio de Janeiro.

An analysis of a slum area in Cleveland /

Authors thesis (Ph.D.) for the Catholic University of America, published in 1934, is on the same subject. cf. Pref.

Summaries of slum clearance and public housing decisions.

Mode of access: Internet.

Tentative report[s] [Numbered series]

[1] Committee on Types of Dwellings.--[2] Committee on Fundamental Equipment.--[3] Committee on Kitchens and Other Work Centers.--[4] Committee on Utilities for Houses.--[5] Committee on Subdivision Layout.--[6] Tentative report of the Committee on Business and Housing.--[7] Committee on Industrial Decentralization and Housing.--[8] Committee on Blighted Areas and Slums.--[9] Committee on Reconditioning, Remodeling and Modernizing.--[10] Committee on Construction.--[11] Committee on Design.--[12] Committee on City Planning and Zoning.--[13] Committee on Finance.--[14] Committee on Taxation.--[15] Committee on Home Ownership and Leasing.--[16] Committee on Home Furnishing and Decoration.--[17] Committee on Landscape Planning and Planting.--[18] Committee on Household Management.[19] Committee on Housing and the Community.--[20] Committee on Farm and Village Housing.--[21] Committee on Negro Housing.--[22] Committee on Home Information Services and Centers.[23] Committee on Homemaking - Housing and Family Life.--[24] Committee on Large-scale Operations.--[25] Committee on Relationship of Income and the Home.

The human side of urban renewal;

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Heretics /

Introductory remarks on the importance of othodoxy[!]--On the negative spirit.--On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the world small.--Mr. Bernard Shaw.--Mr. H. G. Wells and the giants.--Christmas and the s̆thetes.--Omar and the sacred vine.--The mildness of the yellow press.--The moods of Mr. George Moore.--On sandals and simplicity.--Science and the savages.--Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson.--Celts and celtophiles.--On certain modern writers and the institution of the family.--On smart novelists and the smart set.--On Mr. McCabe and a divine frivolity.--On the wit of Whistler.--The fallacy of the young nation.--Slum novelists and the slums.--Concluding remarks on the importance of orthodoxy.

O ambiente interagências nas operações de pacificação do Complexo da Maré

O objetivo do presente estudo foi realizar uma análise da interação do Exército Brasileiro perante os 42 (quarenta e dois) órgãos civis e militares no conjunto de favelas da Maré e de que forma estas influenciaram na doutrina das operações militares de pacificação. A Operação São Francisco - iniciada em 5 de abril de 2014 pela Força de Pacificação (F Pac), foi designada aos componentes do Ministério da Defesa para assegurar e promover a garantia da lei e da ordem (GLO) pública nas comunidades do Complexo da Maré, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. A metodologia proposta baseou-se em uma pesquisa aplicada com técnica de abordagem mista, através da pesquisa bibliográfica, da análise dos documentos e relatórios da F Pac e da realização de entrevistas aos integrantes das forças militares e dos civis que prestaram serviços públicos na região supracitada. Para isso, foi utilizado o método indutivo por meio dos testes estatísticos, que visaram identificar relacionamentos causais entre as demandas de serviços públicos civis atendidos nas comunidades, bem como a influência destas nas operações de pacificação e nas políticas de defesa voltadas à atualização da doutrina e das operações militares. As contribuições teóricas esperadas foram a observação das mudanças no emprego operacional em um ambiente com alta criminalidade e baixo Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH) e fornecer informações para o emprego colaborativo das instituições civis sob a proteção militar (mas não sob o controle militar). Isto visou proporcionar à população o acesso aos serviços públicos básicos com segurança e minimizou o desgaste das ações de GLO através da conquista da opinião pública local. As contribuições práticas esperadas residiram no aumento do potencial militar, através da integração de políticas públicas efetivas das pastas civis. As implicações referiram-se a abordagem e a maior interação entre as pastas governamentais militares e civis através da mediação da Seção de Assuntos Civis. As pesquisas deste trabalho evidenciaram por serem restritas ao contexto da pacificação de um conjunto de favelas da capital do Estado do Rio de Janeiro no ano de 2014.

The Mestizo State: Violence and State Formation in Peru (1980 – 2000)

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-07

A talent for living:exploring Ghana's 'new' urban childhood

This paper considers the lives of children living in a large informal settlement in central Accra, Ghana. Its contention is that children remain largely absent from the renewal of interest in slums and that where they do feature it is largely as objects of risk and vulnerability. Such an exclusive focus, it is argued, risks effacing the ways in which children are capable of actively confronting the terrible constraints posed by slum environments and the 'talent for living' that this involves. Drawing upon the findings of a small qualitative exploratory research project, the paper examines sources of support and cooperation between children and how their decisions to work are perceived as a strategy to actively support mothers and families struggling for a subsistence. © 2011 The Author(s). Children and Society © 2011 National Children's Bureau and Blackwell Publishing Limited.

An Analysis of a Small Favela-Based Youth Organization

This research identifies the value of a community-run NGO (nongovermental organization) in its work to advocate for a more positive image of Rio’s favelas (urban slums). Basic interpretive inquiry is used to analyze interviews with the principle spokesperson for the organization. Recommendations for further research are made.

Rio and the Reds: The Comando Vermelho, Organized Crime and Brazil’s Economic Ascent [Student’s Paper Series]

Brazil’s growing status as a potential world power cannot obscure the characteristics of its other reality: that of a country with vast inequalities and high crime rates. The Comando Vermelho, the most prominent organized crime syndicate in Rio de Janeiro, besieges the beauty and charm that attracts tourists to this city. The CV arose not only as a product of the political dictatorship of the seventies, but also of the disenfranchised urban poor crammed into Rio’s favela slums. Today, the CV presents a powerful challenge to the State’s control of parts of Rio territory. As Brazil’s soft power projection grows, it is seriously challenged by its capacity to eliminate organized crime. Economic growth is not sufficient to destroy a deeply embedded organization like the CV. In fact, Brazil’s success may yet further retrench the CV’s activities. Culpability for organized crime cannot be merely limited to the gangs, but must also be shared among the willing consumers, among whom can be found educated and elite members of society, as well as the impoverished and desperate. The Brazilian government needs a top-down response addressing the schism between rich and poor. However, Brazil’s citizens must also take responsibility and forge a bottom-up response to the drug- and corruption-riddled elements of its most respected members of society. Brazil must target reform across public health, housing, education and above all, law enforcement. Without such changes, Brazil will remain a two-track democracy. Rio’s wealthy will still be able to revel in the city’s beauty albeit from behind armored cars and fortified mansions, while the city’s poor will yield – either as victims or perpetrators – to the desperate measures of organized crime.

A ADESÃO PENTECOSTAL DE BANDIDOS E EX-BANDIDOS – UM ESTUDO SOBRE RELIGIÃO E PERIFERIA NA FAVELA DO JARDIM SÃO JORGE EM CIDADE ADEMAR - SP

A dissertação preocupou-se em analisar as relações de bandidos e ex-bandidos com o pentecostalismo na Assembleia de Deus Fortificada em Cristo (ADFEC), situada na favela Jardim São Jorge, periferia da Cidade Ademar, região Sul da capital de São Paulo. Interessou-nos compreender as interações desses agentes e de qual maneira a igreja desempenhou seu trabalho em um espaço pentecostal. A pesquisa, teve como objetivo fundamental, examinar as aproximações da criminalidade e o pentecostalismo indicando suas rupturas e características peculiares. O trabalho de campo se dedicou em coletar dados que comprovassem atuação da ADFEC juntos aos agentes do crime, e em que medida a filiação religiosa dos agentes ganhava importância. Por fim, buscamos refletir sobre a adesão de bandidos e ex-bandidos ao pentecostalismo e a influência dessa adesão no cotidiano da comunidade.

The Effect of Slum Redevelopment on Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from Mumbai

As the population of urban poor living in slums increases, governments are trying to relocate people into government-provided free housing. Slum redevelopment affects every part of a household’s livelihood, but most importantly the health and wellbeing of younger generations. This paper investigates the effect of slum redevelopment schemes on child stunting levels. Data was collected in forty-one buildings under the slum-redevelopment program in Mumbai. The study demonstrates through a fixed effect regression analysis that an additional year of living in the building is associated with an increase in the height-for-age Z-score by 0.124 standard deviations. Possible explanations include an improvement in the overall hygienic environment, sanitation conditions, indoor air pollution, and access to health and water facilities. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that water contamination, loss of livelihood and increased expenses could worsen health outcomes for residents. This study prompts more research on the health effects of slum redevelopment projects, which are becoming increasingly common in the rapidly urbanizing developing world.