Poverty, Slums, Slum, Shanty town, Rio de Janeiro, Favela
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.”
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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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)
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The military occupation of Rio’s slums
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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
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
Kenya’s slums have been hardest hit by the coronavirus, but they also point the way forward.