Check out the complete Series of community media profiles here. “I never took courses in layout, design, branding or audiovisual presentation,” Michel Silva will tell you. “I learned everything on the go.” When Silva founded the online community […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original by Michel Silva in Portuguese, published in Fala Roça, click here. Access to clean water and sanitation is an essential human right, acknowledged most recently and thoroughly in a United Nations Resolution in […]
Clique aqui para Português Um País Chamado Favela (in English, A Country Called Favela) by Renato Meirelles, president of Data Popular, and Celso Athayde, co-founder of CUFA, examines the accomplishments of favelas and their economic advancements, with analysis of informal housing and its economic power […]
For the original in Portuguese by Jorge Antonio Barros published in O Globo, click here. Misconduct, all too common among the troops, cannot be swept under the rug in the favelas, where residents are tired of being oppressed between […]
For the original article in Portuguese by Davison Coutinho published in Jornal do Brasil, click here. Major Priscila Azevedo, commanding officer of Rocinha’s Police Pacification Unit (UPP) has been promoted to commanding officer of the South […]