Curitiba doesn’t have hundreds of Rio-style favelas that it will relocate in advance of the world’s media, but its 4,000 homeless are being steadily shunted away from main areas where soccer fans will ...

Empowering the populace to keep Curitiba clean. Brasil is infamous for its favelas - unplanned slums inhabited by disenfranchised members of society, usually groups that have migrated to the city from ...

(RNS) — In early 2023, the Rev. Joaquim Parron, a Catholic priest in Curitiba, in southern Brazil, rushed to a sprawling encampment outside the city where more than 200 destitute families were ...

Much has been accomplished. A recent study of 92,000 people across six pacified favelas showed 95 percent of homes were brick and concrete, 75 percent had tile floors, 44 percent had computers ...

Curitiba’s strategy turned waste into a resource, thereby unleashing a range of positives (see also Stockholm). ... (e.g. those living in distant slum/favelas) to travel to where the existing jobs ...

In Rio's Favelas, Hoped-For Benefits From Olympics Have Yet To Materialize : The Torch Expectations were high, but for Rio's poorest, the games are coming up short.

Rio's Favelas Feel The Peace — And The Pressure — Of Pacification : Parallels Before hosting the World Cup, Brazil launched a program to pacify high-crime slums. The project has cut violence ...

The 360-degree tour combines photos, videos Google Maps, and short documentaries to highlight the lives of Brazilians living in Rio's favelas. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

Alongside 12 million others, I call São Paulo my home. When coronavirus hit, I knew our fight in the favelas would not only be for our health but our basic rights.

The scene from a rooftop at a May 6, 2023, protest in Curitiba, southern Brazil state of Paraná, where the Rev. Joaquim Parron and his order of the Redemptorist Fathers protest in solidarity with ...