| This experience began at the favela I frequented in Rio and whose community included me! |
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| These people cannot afford to pay the rent, so they invade public and private areas and start a new favela. |
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| Fight for Peace in the Complexo da Maré favela, Brazil provides alternatives to crime and armed violence for children and youth. |
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| And once a new favela grows exponentially, it becomes a neighborhood with big social and economic problems. |
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| There we meet Esther and Friedberg, a German couple who works in a kids house in a favela of Santo Angelo. |
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| Locally known as a favela, Paraisópolis has a population of about 80,000 in a metropolitan area of about 19 million. |
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| But, like the other kids in the favela, Angelo had also seen the dark side of that life: the arrests, the shoot-outs, the frequent deaths. |
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| And, just like every single one of the millions of Brazilian people unfortunate enough to be from a favela, Melo had longed to get out and help. |
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| Because I come from the favela, I know about misery and what it means to make sacrifices. |
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| This time, there were no fatalities, although it was close call for a resident named Alan in the morro da Formiga favela. |
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| Are they hardened criminals or lost children of the favela? |
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| I interviewed Lilian, a single mother living in a Rio de Janeiro favela. |
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| In this first adventure, Joey dances the samba, quaffs caipirinha cocktails and explores the favela slums in Rio. |
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| Not very wise to go to a favela with the bike... Rodrigo who also works in the kids house picks us up at the bus terminus. No taxi accepts to drive to this favela and there is no public transport. |
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| So being, CINE FAVELA, the first movie theater founded in a favela community in the world was born, lending it name to the sociocultural project. |
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| He had requested to say mass in a very poor favela. |
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| Likening Clydebank housing estates to favela slums of Rio de Janeiro is just an art administrator's cocktail too far. |
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| The favela is now the model for most of the world's cities, as vast numbers of people continue to migrate to them in order to survive. |
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| Criminalisation of the poor explains public security strategies that violate human rights, including the right to life, as police engage in arbitrary actions against favela residents, particularly young, black males. |
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