Providência

The Right to Live: Favela Residents Celebrate Community and Fight for Their Rights

Clique aqui para Português Rio de Janeiro is known worldwide for beautiful beachfront neighborhoods such as Copacabana, and the striking statue of Christ the Redeemer, yet [...]

June 29, 2017

‘Intelligent Garden’ Holds Permaculture and Composting Workshop in Providência

Clique aqui para Português On Sunday June 11, during the Virada Sustentável Rio de Janeiro (Sustainable Turnaround Rio de Janeiro), an introductory workshop on permaculture [...]

June 17, 2017

Two Distant Places Intimately Connected Through the Birth of Brazil’s First Favela

Clique aqui para Português It’s an old story to anyone familiar with Rio’s favelas and their history: the first favela was founded in 1897, when veterans of the Canudos [...]

June 5, 2017

Planting a Future: ‘Intelligent Garden’ Brings Environmental Education to Providência Kids

Clique aqui para Português It is not a simple task to keep the attention of twenty children between two and three years old. But on a Monday afternoon, a young crowd sits [...]

May 3, 2017

BRASIL graffiti (Photo by Phie van Rompu)

Social Constructions of the Favela Part 3: Favela Tourism as Resistance

Clique aqui para Português This is the third article in a four-part series on the social constructions of favelas and the potential of favela tourism to break down [...]

May 1, 2017

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