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3rd Sustainable Favela Network Exchange of 2019: Graffiti, Composting, Recycling at RONGO, in Pavuna

By Sofia Bazin • Translation by Edmund Ruge • September 16, 2019

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 initiatives that strengthen environmental […]

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Hip Hop in the Baixada: Project in Caxias Uses Rhythm as Therapy for Kids

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Júlia Hara Medeiros • August 31, 2019

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 […]

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Poet ‘Deley de Acari’ from the Acari Favela Recounts his Trajectory and Vision, Announces First Book [INTERVIEW]

By Neuza Nascimento, Theresa Williamson • Translation by Abigail Cramer • August 19, 2019

Clique aqui para Português At age 64, Vanderley da Cunha, known as Deley de Acari, has been a poet, writer, human rights activist, and cultural mobilizer in the Acari favela, in the North Zone of […]

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SOS Jardim Gramacho Mobilizes Residents and Recycling Cooperatives at Former Mass Landfill Site [PROFILE]

By Daiana Contini • August 16, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Initiative: SOS Jardim Gramacho Contact: Facebook | Email Year Founded: 2015 Community: Jardim Gramacho (Baixada Fluminense) Mission: To mobilize and raise awareness among neighborhood residents, incentivizing recycling Public Events: SOS Jardim […]

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Five Rio de Janeiro Cities Rank Among Brazil’s Worst for Basic Sanitation

By André Trigueiro • Translation by Edmund Ruge • August 5, 2019

Clique Aqui para Português  For the original article in Portuguese by André Trigueiro published in G1 click here. The study considered the hundred largest municipalities in the nation. Five in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan […]

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