Ms. Skipper volunteered for five months of 2007 in a shantytown about 40 minutes outside Capetown.
The final match will played in Rio's Maracana stadium, not far from the shantytown.
BBC: Rio peace race retraces favela drug lords' escape route
But, for Dharavi's detractors, the shantytown is an eyesore on an aspiring city.
Pamplona Baja, a Lima shantytown district of 80, 000, has only one police car.
The hotel later closed in the early 1980s, and today the small island of green is swallowed by a massive shantytown.
Police officers and celebrities in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro joined about 1, 500 residents in a race through a shantytown to celebrate peace.
BBC: Rio peace race retraces favela drug lords' escape route
Petare, a shantytown in western Caracas, is a painfully sobering example.
For decades, the shantytown was a no-go zone for the police.
BBC: Rio peace race retraces favela drug lords' escape route
The bustling shantytown's prime location in Mumbai -- where rents are among the highest in India -- has led to controversial proposals to dramatically redevelop the area.
Recently, for example, opposition candidates say it took advantage of a flood in Chalco, a huge shantytown near Mexico city, to mix the party message with government aid.
He is credited with saving the shantytown - perched on a hilltop overlooking the sea, with the Christ the Redeemer statue visible in the distance - from being demolished.
In contrast, the square dedicated to the floating shantytown of Makoko, which is the cheapest piece of real estate in the Lagos edition of the game, was left unsponsored.
Criolo, born Kleber Gomes, draws on the grit and poverty of his childhood as the son of a metalworker and a teacher in the Jardim das Imbuias favela, or shantytown.
And what you see normally if you come here is a peaceful place, except for the areas that surround the famous Cite-Soleil, Vitto Ville(ph) or shantytown, where around 200, 000 people live in impossible conditions and where gangs control the place.
The running man returns not Jason Bourne but a new character, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), another hard-ass special-ops agent who defies his superiors and keeps on moving when they try to eliminate him, racing from continent to continent and across shantytown rooftops, through crowded marketplaces, down alleyways.
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