Urban poor improving the lives of slum dwellers

The mob from burned areas.

HSP WUF 2 6 Dialogue on the urban poor improving the lives of slum dwellers

Citizens versus Extreme Poverty

Lying in the gutter?

Urban slums and their youth are the front line for any such efforts.

The slum estimations forecast that there will be 1.4 billion slum dwellers by 2020, if it is assumed that current proportions of slums to urban populations remain valid during the forthcoming five year periods, until 2020.

Or the poor in distress

Or of a homeless needy person!

or a needy man in misery

Or a poor man cleaving to the dust.

Or to a Miskin (poor) afflicted with misery.

Or a destitute in the dust.

or to a destitute lying in dust

Or some poor wretch in misery,

or a needy man in desolation,

or to a needy person in distress

Or a needy person in misery

and downtrodden destitute person, (so that he would be of)

Or to the poor man lying in the dust.

or some needy person in distress,

Or to the indigent (down) in the dust.

The dialogue on urban poor improving the lives of slum dwellers emphasized the need for monitoring the internationally agreed target on slums and concluded that the collection and dissemination of reliable data about slum dwellers was an important way of putting the urban poor on the map in international and national development dialogues and engaging in sound poverty reduction strategies.

Countrywide Slum Upgrading

Here, we have it over here.

In urban areas poverty affects badly the slum areas.

Credo Action

50 percent of our residents live at or below the poverty line.

The problem of slums could not be eliminated overnight and long term plans were necessary, but poverty was the root cause of slums.

There are things they care about.

But did not add If God may please.

And they did not say, If Allah wills .

and they added not the saving words.

And they made not the exception.

Without saying Insha' Allah (If Allah will).

Without any reservation.

without making any allowance (for the will of Allah).

And made no exception (for the Will of Allah)

and they did not make any exception.

without adding to their swearing, (Allah willing, InshaAllah).

Without making exception.

without adding ( if God wills ).

And were not willing to set aside a portion (for the poor).

without saying, If it be God's will.

But made no reservation, ( If it be Allah's Will ).