Clique aqui para Português Concerned by the neglect facing Pedacinho do Céu, or “Little Piece of Heaven”, as the area atop the Rio de Janeiro favela Morro do Turano is known, current and former residents […]
Clique aqui para Português On June 17, 2023, Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network (SFN)* launched its Favela Climate Memory Exhibition, the culmination of five day-long climate memory circles held by favela community museums between […]
Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series of profiles of initiatives in Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network. Initiative: Itaguaí Women’s Association—Warriors and Social Articulators (A.M.I.G.A.S.) Contact: Facebook | Instagram | +55 (21) […]
Clique aqui para Português On October 14, 2022, youth from the Almirante Tamandaré State School got together to hear from older residents who fought against evictions in the favela of Vidigal during the military dictatorship […]
Clique aqui para Português Over 175,000 people were evicted from favelas in the state of Rio between 1960 and 1973, a period historian Mário Brum calls the “Era of Evictions” in his thesis Cidade Alta: History, […]