1. Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns. 2. The inhabitants of the shanty towns have frequently achieved stability and social organisation through the establishment of personal networks and voluntary associations. 3. Last year twenty thousand set up a tented shanty town on the site, taking police by surprise and enraging local people. 4. By next morning, the normally tranquil common near Malvern, had become a travellers shanty town. 5. As Hagler and his friends ride in from the airport, they pass a shanty town, one of many they have seen. 6. Beijing has tried various strategies to control the tide, like leveling migrant shanty towns and sending vagrants home. 7. Canoes glide through the shanty town. 8. Forget teeming slums and immigrant shanty towns. 9. George Best came from a shanty town in Ireland. 10. He says nothing about critical social changes in the roles of women, nor about the vast migration of villagers to shanty towns and to Western Europe. |