University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Charles Darwin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Urban green spaces like parks with ...

A new medical clinic in a slum area of Ghana is now better equipped to offer much-needed medical care thanks to the ...

Global Sisters Report is publishing a special series about how trash is managed in the world and how sisters are helping people affected by landfills. We start this project to mark the one-year ...

When I first heard about the community of Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana, I recognized something. A Ghanaian Catholic sister who visited the green market weekly in that neighborhood told me about it. She ...

Savings from the association in Old Fadama have allowed residents to upgrade their homes from wood to concrete. Photo credit: Shack Dwellers International Salifu leads the chant: “Information!” “Power ...

Shirtless boys rapidly pull the computer apart, discarding bits and pieces, until they expose the wires, yank them out, and toss them into a fire. Acrid, toxic smoke blooms as the boys prod the wires ...

Seth Asare Okyere previously received funding from the Konosuke Matsushita Memorial (Panasonic) Foundation. He is currently part of a research team based in Japan that receives funding from the Japan ...

Sodom and Gomorrah is the biggest slum in Ghana, a country that sprouts shantytowns like weeds. There are about eighty thousand Sodomites crammed onto less than half a square mile in the capital city, ...