Medplus Pharmacy at Chess in Slums in Oshodi under bridge. Chess in Slums Africa is a social development initiative that helps children find life changing opportunities by teaching and unlocking the ...

Some of them are buried in books, listening intently to their teacher. While the other children grip a bat and ball, a few chase each other in a game of hide and seek. It is an unusual sight in Old ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a squalid slum below a partially built flyover in eastern Delhi, Satyendra Pal stands by a whiteboard propped against a straw hut, with half a dozen children wearing masks and ...

From Connecticut to Kenya, fundraising is changing lives. It started when a local veteran made a trip to the African country in December. Now one act of kindness has evolved, and has the potential to ...

When little Fanuel Ochieng moved to Kibera slums two years ago, his life was in disarray. His father was ill and bed-ridden. He had no relative upcountry to take care of him. His father was then ...

AXA Mansard Health has offered free health insurance to 100 children from the Chess in Slum community. According to the underwriter, the gesture is to demonstrate its belief that quality healthcare ...

A dozen children crowd around plastic tables in the Majidun neighborhood of Lagos. Intently focused on plastic mats printed with chess boards, the children thoughtfully move pieces on the board as ...

It was an overcrowded school in a metropolitan slum neighborhood where I first began to teach, and an incident of those days has always stuck in my memory. Six hundred children were in the auditorium ...