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What's life like for children in the slums of Jakarta?

Neng is fourteen years old. She lives and works on Venus Alley, a lane in the notorious Jembatan Besi slum in Jakarta, Indonesia. Unlike other children her age, she rarely gets to see the sun. The slum is one of the most densely populated in Indonesia, rising to four stories in places. As they ascend, the homes become increasingly makeshift, with walls and floors made from wood and scrap metal.

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A Bangkok university rises to flood challenge

Tired mother Gaew is one of the thousands of people made homeless by Thailand’s devastating floods. She waits with her chubby five-month-old baby, Peem, outside a makeshift health clinic at Bangkok’s Phranakhon Rajabhat Universit.

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Getting children back to school in Orissa state, east India

By the age of ten, 40% of children in India are forced to drop out of primary school, denying them their right to an education. Kevin E. G. Perry looks at how UNICEF is working to change this in Orissa, one of India’s poorest states, with the help...