Clique aqui para Português For 12 years, Dona Rita Maria Barbosa, 56, kept an organic garden supplying her local community in Colônia Juliano Moreira (in Jacarepaguá, West Zone) with fresh fruit and vegetables and teaching […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese click here S.O.S. PROVIDÊNCIA Did you know the oldest favela in Brazil is being destroyed? Since 2009, Rio’s Port Region has been transformed into a […]
Clique aqui para Português “I’ve not been respected at all,” exclaimed Providência resident Neuzimar in Monday’s court hearing with the State Public Defender’s office, Public Ministry, representatives from the City government and the Providência community’s residents […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the second of four articles about the cluster of favelas in Curicica, Jacarepaguá that are awaiting urban integration projects through the Morar Carioca upgrading program. A community that breathes. Carlos Alberto “Bezerra” Costa, […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing, in Portuguese click here. On Wednesday, August 16, 2012, residents of the community of Vila Autodromo, in Rio […]