Clique aqui para Português Se Essa Vila Não Fosse Minha (If This Villa Weren’t Mine) is a new documentary produced by Felipe Pena which tells the story of Vila Autódromo and its fight against eviction. The favela is adjacent to […]
Residents of Vila União de Curicica, a West Zone neighborhood about 1km from the future Olympic site that is being threatened with one of the largest evictions yet announced for the 2016 Olympics, have been […]
Clique aqui para Português The informal geography and history of favelas can mean it is difficult for letters and packages to be delivered to residents. The creativity and entrepreneurship of favela residents have resulted in […]
Clique aqui para Português When he was a kid, William Reis looked at himself in the mirror and wished his skin was lighter, his nose thinner, his hair straighter and his eyes blue. In his […]
Joining a renewed global movement, City of God is the first favela in the city of Rio de Janeiro to hold its own local community currency, called the CDD after the acronym for Cidade de Deus. […]