Policies

Public square as a community right

Last week, O Centro Loyola de Fé e Cultura from PUC University hosted the last part of a lecture series entitled “Builders and the Built – the spaces of human relations” which set out to […]

Interviews & Profiles

My Heart Stayed on Jatobá Street

Clique aqui para Português On my first visit to Morro da Providência I met a man with several names including Seu Mangará, Mango do Forró, Manga Verde and finally José Pedro. He proceeded to begin […]

by Community Contributors

Destiny is an Unknown

Clique aqui para Português By the famous staircase beside which lie the many houses in 104-year-old Morro da Providência marked for removal by the Municipal Housing Secretariat (SMH), thousands live their lives full of dreams […]

by Community Contributors

Missing my Providência

Clique aqui para Português “I miss my Providência,” exclaimed Eron César dos Santos, who has lived on the hill for 44 years, or his entire life. A man with glasses and a burn mark on […]