Short-term Student Ministries with Slum Communities | Lausanne World Pulse Archives
This summer, thousands of university students from the Global North moved into urban slum communities in the Global South to live alongside the poor. (See the statistics in the sidebar.)
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Working Definitions and Facts “Urban poor” defined: Those living on less than $1 USD or $2 USD per day (Millennium Development Agenda). Those living with inadequate income, shelter and access to infrastructure and basic daily services. Those who have an unstable asset base, little to no access to their rights as citizens and are voiceless and powerless in their communities. |