Clique aqui para Português On Monday, June 5, World Environment Day, a new community garden was launched in the Cantagalo favela. Cássia Oliveira, executive coordinator of the NGO Harmonicanto: Música e Cidadania (Harmony and Song: Music […]
Clique aqui para Português In Friday afternoon’s pouring rain, mothers, relatives, and favela community members gathered on Rio Branco Avenue, next to the Candelária Church in downtown Rio de Janeiro, to protest the unlawful killing of […]
Clique aqui para Português It is not a simple task to keep the attention of twenty children between two and three years old. But on a Monday afternoon, a young crowd sits straight in their little […]
Clique aqui para Português In the favela where I live, the government spends thousands of reais for the Military Police to come in with war tanks and heavy weaponry. Who cares if stray bullets kill innocent people? […]
Clique aqui para Português The rooftop balcony of the Roupa Feliz hostel offers a rare refuge from the heat and bustle of the Rocinha favela. Due to its sheer size, Rocinha is often referred to as a […]