Urban Slums a Failure of Human Civilizations

Today over one billion people live in Urban Slums on Earth and that number is rising at an alarming rate. In Kibera in Nairobi Kenya, some 800,000 people are living is severe conditions, including raw sewage and around 1,000s dying of HIV/AIDS.

Kibera in Nairobi is merely one humanitarian crisis and there are many more like it Africa, Asia, South America and Indonesia. Africa had an estimated 14 million orphan children of HIV/AIDS victims and that was a figure from 2001, some believe the number now is nearly double if not triple today. Even without the AIDS crisis, 32.5% of the Earth's human population lives in Urban Slum areas with very similar living conditions.

Thankfully in many of these world slums there are people, literally Angles or Mother Teresa Types working with the slum communities from the inside, but they are overwhelmed with the HIV/AIDS victims, orphan children, disease, starvation and sanitation issues. And without such basic necessities as;

• Trash and Rubbish Pick-up
• Running Water
• Electricity and Power
• Sewer Hook-ups
• Shelter from Weather (marginal roofing, repairs)
• Fire Fighters or Fire Stations
• Police other than Neighborhood Watch

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"Lance Winslow" - If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is a guest writer for Our Spokane Magazine in Spokane, Washington

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