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2 unusual facts about shanty town


Gabby Pahinui

It was impoverished at the time, very much resembling a shanty-town with small cluttered buildings and tin roofs falling apart.

Mandy Salter

Mandy ends 1992 homeless and sleeping in a makeshift shanty.


Criolo

Born to migrants from the North East of Brazil in the commercial hub of São Paulo, Kleber Gomes a.k.a. Criolo was born in the 'Favela das Imbuias', one of the many shanty towns that girdle the city.

Jorge Urosa

Before becoming vicar general of the Archdiocese of Caracas, he was President of the Organization of Latin American Seminaries and founded a parochial vicariate in a chabolas neighborhood of Caracas.

SA Waste Holdings

This one will involve providing of a total refuse removal service (Including round-collected refuse removal, street cleaning, servicing of garden sites, and servicing of informal settlements) for the Ivory Park area of Johannesburg.


see also

Cyrano Fernandez

The movie is based on the romantic triangle between Cyrano (Edgar Ramirez), Cristian (Pastor Oviedo) and Roxanna (Jessika Grau) during the turbulent riots between a group of drug dealers and the neighbours of a shanty town in Caracas.

Hardy Town, Gibraltar

The huts soon became a shanty town, situated out of range of the Spanish land batteries at a spot near the southern end of the peninsula, between the Naval Hospital and the South Barracks on the road leading to Europa Point (now Europa Road).

Kara Hui

In the early years, Hui's family resided in the poor shanty town of Rennie's Mill.