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Transforming Favelas: How This Group Is Working to End Poverty in Brazil

“We want to send the poverty seen in favelas to the museum before Elon Musk colonizes Mars.”

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.@edulyragf grew up in Brazil's slums. Now, he's stepping up to help people in his country to break the cycle of poverty. https://t.co/cmIcSgF49k
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Transforming Favelas: How This Group Is Working to End Poverty in Brazil

Transforming Favelas: How This Group Is Working to End Poverty in Brazil

“We want to send the poverty seen in favelas to the museum before Elon Musk colonizes Mars.”

Celso Athayde: Fostering Digital Businesses From Brazil's Favelas

Celso Athayde: Fostering Digital Businesses From Brazil's Favelas

The award-winning social entrepreneur will launch a new fund aimed at technology businesses from Brazilian slums.

How the Coronavirus Response Is Not Helping Those Who Live in Slums (Who Need It the Most)

How the Coronavirus Response Is Not Helping Those Who Live in Slums (Who Need It the Most)

Research finds that many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the help they need to survive the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus in slums: Helpers left high and dry in infection hotspots

Coronavirus in slums: Helpers left high and dry in infection hotspots

For a billion people living in slums, social distancing and washing their hands are a luxury they can hardly afford. Organizers in Nigeria, Kenya and Brazil are fighting the coronavirus ...

Megacity slums are incubators of disease – but coronavirus response isn’t helping the billion people who live in them

Megacity slums are incubators of disease – but coronavirus response isn’t helping the billion people who live in them

COVID-19 is spreading fast through not only the world's richest cities but also its poorest, ravaging slum areas where risk factors like overcrowding and poverty accelerate disease ...

A billion people live in the slums of the world’s megacities—and they’re being missed by coronavirus plans

A billion people live in the slums of the world’s megacities—and they’re being missed by coronavirus plans

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly.

Brazil 'Ghostbuster' deep cleans favela streets to fight coronavirus

Brazil 'Ghostbuster' deep cleans favela streets to fight coronavirus

When coronavirus hit and tourists stopped coming to Thiago Firmino's Rio de Janeiro favela tour, he decided to act. Unwilling to wait for officials to react, he donned a white suit and set ...

'No time': Latin America's slum dwellers lead coronavirus battle

'No time': Latin America's slum dwellers lead coronavirus battle

Highly vulnerable to coronavirus, favela residents across the region are working together to fill gaps in government aid

MIT Senseable City Lab maps Brazilian favela with handheld 3D-scanners

MIT Senseable City Lab maps Brazilian favela with handheld 3D-scanners

Researchers at MIT Senseable City Lab have used handheld 3D-scanning technology to analyse the architecture of Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela.

The military occupation of Rio’s slums

The military occupation of Rio’s slums

The favelas of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil have been cleaned up by the military. What's it like inside the favelas now? This Rio tour will show you.

Rethinking the future of housing worldwide: favelas as a sustainable model

Rethinking the future of housing worldwide: favelas as a sustainable model

Editor’s Note: Shareable is partnering with Tufts University on this special series hosted by professor Julian Agyeman (Co-chair of Shareable’s Board) and

From Dhaka to Gaza: How do you socially distance in a crowd?

From Dhaka to Gaza: How do you socially distance in a crowd?

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Josna Begum lives with her son in a house with four other families in a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, the world’s most densely populated city. “Distancing ...

Lessons From Brazil’s Poor to Fight the Coronavirus

Lessons From Brazil’s Poor to Fight the Coronavirus

As Brazilian politicians argue over how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, civil society organizations from the country’s slums have come together to educate and advocate for their ...

Rethinking the Future of Housing Worldwide: Favelas as a Sustainable Model

Rethinking the Future of Housing Worldwide: Favelas as a Sustainable Model

Strategies employed by Catalytic Communities, in over twenty years supporting Asset-Based Community Development in Rio de Janeiro's favelas.

A Kenyan COVID-19 notebook: The ‘mama mbogas’ and the path to recovery

A Kenyan COVID-19 notebook: The ‘mama mbogas’ and the path to recovery

Kenya’s slums have been hardest hit by the coronavirus, but they also point the way forward.