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Favela Community NGOs Fill the Gaps in Rio’s Educational System

By Raven Hayes • November 17, 2016

Clique aqui para Português “You aren’t from the favela. You’re from the world,” Iara Oliveira, founder of the Alfazendo NGO, tells her students. Alfazendo is an educational NGO based in the City of God favela in Rio […]

Favela Culture

Ballet Manguinhos: Empowerment, Opportunities and Community Pride through Dance

By Sarah Cronin • October 26, 2016

Clique aqui para Português “You have never seen classical ballet like this…” reads the tagline for the Ballet Urbano Manguinhos (BUM) exhibition, a multi-location photo exhibit that launched on September 23 at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz). The exhibition features snapshots of […]

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Entering the Scene: Empowerment and Community Mobilization through the Theater of the Oppressed in Maré

By Anna Cash • September 27, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Theater of the Oppressed (TO) is an internationally celebrated participatory form of theater invented in Rio, in which there are no spectators, just spect-actors. TO was originally created by writer, director, and politician […]

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Bandeirantes Já Project Sets Example for Grassroots Education in César Maia [IMAGES]

By Alix Vadot, David Morsi • July 25, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Located in Rio’s West Zone, around 7km west of the newly built Olympic Park, the community of César Maia is a 22-year-old social housing complex that’s home to an incredible sociocultural project […]

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Virtuous Cycles of Development: Education and Culture in Salgueiro

By Mathilde Mouton • July 16, 2016

Clique aqui para Português This is the second article in a three-part series profiling community-based initiatives in three favelas. Led by one or several local residents, these initiatives all share the objective of initiating a virtuous circle […]

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