For an introduction to the film go to www.theartofwalkingbarefoot.com. The film will be called “The Art of Walking Barefoot.” The title is meant to reflect three elements of life for children on the ...

By age 7, more than 26 per cent of the children were classified 'thin' and 5.2 per cent classified 'overweight/obese', ...

As Mumbai demolishes slums from Garib Nagar to Goregaon, an old debate has returned. Did Sunil Dutt protect the poor, or help ...

Hazeena looked pale and hungry when she came to a kindergarten managed by Catholic nuns in a southern Indian state. A few months earlier, the 7-year-old girl was seen helping her parents in the ...

A dozen children crowd around plastic tables in the Majidun neighborhood of Lagos. Intently focused on plastic mats printed with chess boards, the children thoughtfully move pieces on the board as ...

AXA Mansard Health has offered free health insurance to 100 children from the Chess in Slum community. According to the underwriter, the gesture is to demonstrate its belief that quality healthcare ...

It was an overcrowded school in a metropolitan slum neighborhood where I first began to teach, and an incident of those days has always stuck in my memory. Six hundred children were in the auditorium ...

When little Fanuel Ochieng moved to Kibera slums two years ago, his life was in disarray. His father was ill and bed-ridden. He had no relative upcountry to take care of him. His father was then ...

Over the last two years, Western media have focused on Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs. However, most Filipinos are happy with the efforts of their President. They believe ...