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Teach-In ‘How Does the Pandemic Impact Waste Pickers?’ Reinforces #SupportAWastePicker Campaign

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on favelas and in the series of Teach-Ins on Covid-19 in favelas. In the wake of the [...]

July 24, 2020

This Engineer from the Favelas is 3D-Printing Face Shields to Support His Community

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on the new coronavirus as it impacts Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. Lucas Lima’s 3D printers sit beside his bed, [...]

April 25, 2020

Vila Autódromo Residents and Supporters Screen New Films on Community that Resisted Olympics

Clique aqui para Português Despite torrential rain and severe weather warnings, the characteristically resilient residents and supporters of Rio de Janeiro’s Vila [...]

March 9, 2020

If This UPP Were Mine: With an End to Pacification, Residents Dream of Reoccupying Public Spaces

Clique aqui para Português While the failure of the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) model had already been signaled years ago by residents, researchers, civil society [...]

March 11, 2019

UniFavela Sows the Seeds of Popular Education in Maré (and How You Can Show Your Support)

Clique aqui para Português “Our DNA is not only our own. It has been in contact with other bacteria for thousands of years,” explains Luana Silva dos Santos. [...]

January 29, 2019

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