When Next City began its Health Horizons: Innovations and Informal Economies column last March, I set out to cover a year of global health innovations affecting informal workers in cities in low- and middle-income countries. “I’ll trace a path around the planet,” I wrote about my plans for the year, “talking to healthcare corporations, labor activists, and the average woman selling oranges in places like Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa; Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya; the slums of Karachi, Kolkata and Kathmandu … .”
Image: Pasang Sherpa lives in a displaced persons’ camp under a plastic tent in Chabahil, Nepal. (Photo by M. Sophia Newman)
