Clique aqui para Português The Maré complex—a group of 16 communities of over 130,000 inhabitants and innumerable civil society organizations located in Rio’s North Zone—was the 39th favela in Rio de Janeiro to go through the […]
Clique aqui para Português A debate to discuss favela tourism as a tool for social inclusion took place on Tuesday March 11 in Tabajaras, Copacabana. The event was the twelfth in a series of debates organized […]
Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday March 4 community leaders, environmental activists and young people all from the North Zone community of Manguinhos gathered at the community library to launch the project Plantando Ideias (Planting Ideas). The initiative […]
For the original in Portuguese by Miriane Peregrino, published in Agência de Notícias das Favelas, click here. The Santa Marta tram was launched on May 29, 2008, the same year Rio de Janeiro’s first Police Pacification Unit (UPP) was established […]
Clique aqui para Português Residents of Vila Kennedy in Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone gathered once again for a ‘mutirão de limpeza’—a collective clean-up effort. These clean-ups happen every rainy day in summer and winter, as the […]