December 4, 2011
Project Highlights Human Needs in Slums
Doctors Without Borders worked with photographers to document living conditions in urban slums.
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Doctors Without Borders worked with photographers to document living conditions in urban slums.
Urban Survivors, a new multimedia project, seeks to highlight the urgent humanitarian crisis and medical needs of people living in slums. Rapid urbanization has brought a sharp increase in the number of people living in such abject conditions—one in 10 people worldwide.
Doctors Without Borders collaborated with the NOOR photo agency and Darjeeling Productions to create the site, which features online documentaries about conditions in five cities.
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