Urban Survivors: A journey through the world's slums

Over the last decades, rapid and sustained urbanisation has swelled existing slums, and spurred the creation of new ones around the world.

Today, more than one out of ten people on the planet lives in a slum.

To highlight the critical humanitarian and medical needs that exist in urban settings the world over, MSF is now launching Urban Survivors - a multimedia project in collaboration with the NOOR photo agency and Darjeeling Productions.

The Urban Survivors web-documentary takes the visitor on a virtual journey through five slums - in Dhaka (Bangladesh), Karachi (Pakistan), Johannesburg (South Africa), Port-au-Prince (Haiti) and Nairobi (Kenya) - where MSF is actively running projects. Featuring the work of award-winning NOOR photographers, Urban Survivors lets the visitor discover more about the daily lives of people in these slums, the humanitarian issues they face, and what MSF is doing to address these problems.

 
Visit the Urban Survivors web-documentary here (www.urbansurvivors.org)