I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums.
These are slum kids, I was a slum kid. Everybody talks like that.
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums. And ...
You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changi...
Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit o...
The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then...
I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
The slum is the measure of civilization.
My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.
We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.
Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.
Childhood is a slum and they love it.
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.
