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Clique aqui para Português Houses numbered 48 and 50 on Passos da Pátria Street, in Niterói, share a special history of struggle for housing and dignity. Occupied for more than 20 years, 36 families now live inside their walls. […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese, published in Agência de Notícias das Favelas, click here. This December, Cerro Corá, a favela located next to Christ the Redeemer in Rio’s South Zone, launched the Cerro Corá Community Library. […]
Clique aqui para Português In a meeting with activist leaders from Complexo do Alemão on February 6, Mayor Eduardo Paes agreed to move forward with the construction of a higher education institution in the community […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese, published in Maré de Notícias, click here. With Madonna rumored to have just purchased a house near David Beckham’s in fastest-gentrifying Vidigal–the seaside favela known for halting military government evictions […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese, published in Voz das Comunidades, click here. Every day the favela develops, and the needs of its residents develop along with it. One of these needs is […]