Vale Encantado Plans for Sustainable Sanitation Project
Vale Encantado, a tranquil favela located in the heart of the Tijuca Forest, has developed a creative solution to ensure the historic community’s future development in [...]
July 2013
The Pope Criticizes the “Pacification” of Favelas, Inequality, and Supports Protestors
For the original by Jamil Chade in Portuguese in Estado de São Paulo click here. Pope Francis attacked the strategy of “pacification” used in the favelas of Rio [...]
Rocinha Wants to Know: Where is Amarildo?
For the original by Elenilce Bottari in Portuguese in O Globo click here. They have no doubt that “what they did to Bull was a great cruelty.” This is how residents, [...]
Rocinha Says No to Cable Car
For the original in Portuguese on Canal iBase click here. A heated debate took place at the Engineering Club last Friday July 19 over the Rio state government’s attempt to [...]
Could Pope Francis’ Visit (Finally) Trigger Sanitation Improvements in Manguinhos?
For the community of Varginha in Complexo de Manguinhos, a complex of favelas in Rio’s North Zone, the imminent visit of Pope Francis this week is a great honor. Pope [...]