Clique aqui para Português For a long time favelas were adrift from the debates at the heart of this city, thought of as marginalized and wrapped up in violence and poverty. Their residents forever carried […]
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 […]
Clique aqui para Português This past Friday, July 15, a group of around 70 community members and artists gathered at Arena Carioca Dicró in Penha, in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone to discuss and recognize the contributions of women […]
Clique aqui para Português The following excerpts come from Favela Stories, a blog and Facebook page by Sascha Bercovitch* that tells the stories of residents in Complexo da Maré, one of Rio’s largest favela complexes, located in the […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Carolina Callegari in Portuguese published in O Globo click here. In December 1964, the project that included the creation of a new neighborhood in the West Zone between […]