Nearly half the people in the world live on less than $2 per day, and 1 billion people live on $1 a day -- "at the margins of survival," according to the United Nations. And 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening. But countless people and groups are working everyday to help transform lives by improving livelihoods around the world.
For the residents of Sulukule, an impoverished Istanbul neighborhood and historical Roma enclave, a city-wide "urban transformation" plan means evictions and demolitions that are leaving community members' hearts as hollow as their devastated homes.