Mfunidisi Masithe News Today

Wary residents and a lack of support from local authorities make it difficult to map the needs of informal settlement residents and deliver public services.

In slums from Johannesburg to Rio, residents are collecting data to map urgent needs and lobby for better services like sanitation and waste collection.

Informal settlement mapping could help.

Wary residents and a lack of support from local authorities make it difficult to map the needs of informal settlement residents and deliver public services.