07 Apr 2014

**Cross-posted from The Age of Zinc** Age of Zinc is proud to present the eighth instalment in a new memoir from the slums of Kampala, Uganda. Check back every week to catch the next...

28 Mar 2014

**Cross-posted from The Age of Zinc** Age of Zinc is proud to present the seventh instalment in a new memoir from the slums of Kampala, Uganda. Check back every week to catch the...

24 Mar 2014

Age of Zinc is proud to present the sixth instalment in a new memoir from the slums of Kampala, Uganda. Check back every week to catch the next part of the story!  - ...

14 Mar 2014

**Cross-posted from The Age of Zinc**  Age of Zinc is proud to present the fifth instalment in a new memoir from the slums of Kampala, Uganda. Check back every week to catch the...

07 Mar 2014

**Cross-posted from The Age of Zinc**  Age of Zinc is proud to present the fourth instalment in a new memoir from the slums of Kampala, Uganda. Check back every week to...

21 Feb 2014

**Cross-posted from The Age of Zinc** I was born in the central part of Uganda in Bweyogerere, which is in Wakiso district outside of Kampala. I grew up in Naguru,...

13 Feb 2014

**Cross-posted from The Age of Zinc** I never wanted to suffer like my mother had suffered. Life in the slums is hard, especially when your parents are poor. There are...

22 Nov 2013

Back in April, we posted an article about women and sanitation in Nairobi's slums. ("In A Risky Place: Women & Sanitation in Nairobi's Slums" ). Recently, we revisited the audio...

17 Sep 2013

By Jockin Arputham, President, SDI and National Slum Dwellers Federation of India (NSDF) It is sometimes hard to imagine that it is 28 years since the National Slum Dweller Federation of...

25 Mar 2013

< **Cross-posted from The News International** By Rabia Ezdi  "Rahman had a capacity to pick up on the potential of people, and believe in them until they had no choice...

15 Mar 2013

SDI was deeply shocked to learn of the murder of colleague and mentor Parween Rehman, director of the Orangi PIlot Project in Karachi Pakistan, in what appeared to be a...