Moving on Up: Families Use Hillside Slums to Build Dreams in Mexico City Al Jazeera
go to original September 21, 2014

Poor neighborhoods are often the only place Mexicans with little education and little money can build better lives. (Al Jazeera)

Millions of people from Mexico's countryside come to the capital to build settlements and slums, adding to the ongoing expansion of one of the world's biggest cities.

Around the world, there are an estimated 8 million people living in slums. In Mexico, the poor have largely settled in shantytowns on the edge of Mexico City.

Despite the danger, the hardship, the lack of hygiene, many families are using it as a chance to build a better life.

As part of an ongoing My Home series, Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports from Mexico City on families moving from the countryside to build better lives.

Anselmo Garduno, a resident of Ixtapaluca, Mexico, shares his story (Al Jazeera)

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