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• n  a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties

• A man shows the scar from the removal of a kidney as he sits outside his house in the shantytown of Baseco in Manila The organ market is largely made up of impoverished and .
• A man shows the scar from the removal of a kidney as he sits outside his house in the shantytown of Baseco in Manila.
• Another 124 were picked up in the dying shantytown, and their belongings were meticulously catalogued for later retrieval.

News & Articles

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• Coming Of Age Amid Upheaval In 'We Need New Names'
  In We Need New Names , NoViolet Bulawayo tells the story of Darling and her friends, desperate children who live in a shantytown called Paradise. Although the early chapters are told in a child's voice, there is no whimsy in this novel of a turbulent Zimbabwe.
  June 6, 2013 - NPR

Quotes

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• Juan Barreto in BBC News
  But Mr Barreto said: "It's shameful to see people playing golf and just right there in front of them is a shantytown."
• Larry Towell in International Herald Tribune
  If the world were 1,000 people, 600 would be living in a shantytown with little access to healthcare,Towell wrote above his panoramic photographs depicting the home of one of his subjects.
• Sergio Vargas in Austin American-Statesman
  Right now, I am in a shantytown where the entire little village has been converted into a lake,Sergio Vargas, a Dominican Republic lawmaker, told The Miami Herald by telephone from the southern province of San Cristobal.