Clique aqui para Português Complexo da Maré, a group of 16 favelas home to 140,000 residents in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, is now home to three incredible museums. The Maré Museum, inaugurated May 13, […]
Clique aqui para Português Initiative: Pedala Queimados (“Cycle Queimados”) Contact: Facebook | Instagram | Email Year Founded: 2016 Community: Queimados (Baixada Fluminense) Mission: To stimulate the use of cycling as a means of transportation, democratize land […]
Clique aqui para Português Stepping into the classroom at the Lira de Ouro Arts and Music Society, also a historic carnival block founded in 1957 in downtown Duque de Caxias, in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s […]
Clique aqui para Português The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) is a project of Catalytic Communities (CatComm)* designed to build and reinforce solidarity networks, bring visibility and develop joint actions to support the expansion of community-based […]
Clique Aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Felipe Betim published in El País click here. Children from the Complexo da Maré favelas describe the horrors of life in the crossfire, writing […]