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Movimento Pro-Saneamento's "Recycle Araruama" event in December 2016. Photo from MPS Facebook page

Baixada’s Pro-Sanitation Movement #SustainableFavelaNetwork [PROFILE]

Clique aqui para Português Initiative: Pro-Sanitation and Environment [...]

April 18, 2018

Fishing boats with protest banners

Boat Ride for a Living Guanabara Bay Calls Attention to Defining Element of Rio’s Iconic Landscape

Clique aqui para Português On Saturday, diverse groups interested in [...]

August 10, 2017

Foto: Elisângela Leite

One Year Later: Guanabara Bay Still Filthy, Maré Residents Debate Sanitation and Artisanal Fishing

Clique aqui para Português On July 27, community, municipal, and [...]

August 6, 2017

Attendees watch as the water they brought with them from home is poured into the Guanabara Bay. Photo by Domingos Peixoto from Agência O Globo

Inter-Religious Event Celebrates Guanabara Bay’s ‘Sacred Waters’

Clique aqui para Português The universal importance of water was the [...]

May 10, 2017