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Laje, Sweet Laje

Clique aqui para Português For original article in Viva Favela click here. Lack of space has become a chronic problem in Rio’s favelas. It is evident that in the last few years buildings have grown […]

Zumbi Vive! Celebrating Afro-Brazilian Awareness in Providência

By Felicity Clarke • November 28, 2012

Clique aqui para Português Afro-Brazilian Awareness Week concludes in Rio this coming Friday with ZUMBI VIVE!, an event full of theater, music and festivity in Morro da Providência, Brazil’s first favela which celebrates 115 years […]

Funk and FLUPP: The Future of the Favela Party

By Daniel Israel • Translation by Tom Winterbottom • November 27, 2012

Clique aqui para Português “There is no more pleasure over there on the Hill of Pleasures [Morro dos Prazeres]…” This line, from the composition by the songwriter and poet Paulo César Pinheiro, comes from the […]

Asset Mapping Pica-Pau

By Rexy Josh Dorado • September 21, 2012

Click here to see Pica-Pau on the EcoCitizen World Map! Equipped with a GPS, voice recorder, and pair of cameras, my partner Ana Puhač and I entered Pica-Pau, Cordovil looking to compose a profile of […]

Favela NGOs rewrite social identities and combat stigma, affirms new LSE study

By Felicity Clarke • September 17, 2012

Non-governmental organizations in Rio’s favelas that work with art, culture, sport and civic engagement provide structures that allow young people to escape a career of crime and, by actively showing that drugs, violence and crime […]