1. Outreach, Impact, Collaboration: Why Academics Should Join to Stand Against Poverty
- Author:
- Luis Cabrera and Thomas Pogge
- Publication Date:
- 07-2012
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Institution:
- Carnegie Council
- Abstract:
- It is a typical late afternoon in the Timarpur neighborhood, lying just across the Mahatma Gandhi Marg ring road from the University of Delhi North Campus. Families gather outside one- and two-room brick living quarters, many of which have only a single draped cloth serving as the front wall. Other homes are made of found materials: cloth or plastic bound over slim wooden poles; a mishmash of blankets, boards, and corrugated metal for walls; metal or blue plastic tarpaulins weighted against the wind with stones and bricks for roofs. A boy of perhaps four fills a bucket at the single communal tap serving a dozen families and wobbles up a set of stairs, sloshing out water with each step. Another child, younger, plays quietly beside a woman sleeping on the pavement under a shelter of plastic and burlap bags
- Topic:
- Poverty
- Political Geography:
- New Delhi