Clique aqui para Português Favela-Bairro was an ambitious program established in 1994 with the aim of upgrading favelas to the status of formal neighborhoods (“bairros” in Portuguese) through infrastructure interventions, public services, public facilities, and […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original petition in Portuguese by Rocinha Sem Fronteiras published on www.change.org click here. We, the undersigned, residents and friends of the favela Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, are here […]
Clique aqui para Português José Martins de Oliveira, a long-time activist and organizer in Rocinha, and currently co-director of Rocinha Without Borders, marked exactly fifty years since he first came to Rio de Janeiro on March […]
Clique aqui para Português While much media coverage of Rio 2016 asked searching questions about Rio and what the future holds for its people, much less attention was paid to the future of the Olympic Games or, in […]
Clique aqui para Português Three years after government officials announced that Rocinha in the South Zone would be the third favela in Rio to receive a cable car transport system from the second phase of the […]