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Community Reporting
As part of our commitment to diversifying the voices represented in English-language media on Brazil, the Community Reporting Initiative features reporters and stories from urban neighborhoods in some of the country’s major metropolitan areas.
While Population Suffers Impacts of Poor Infrastructure, Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Flood Containment Program Is Delayed and Over Budget
The Dique da Vila Alzira favela, near the Iguaçu River, faces recurring floods. Photo: Filipo Tardim In December 2023, mechanical technician Sandro Luís Costa, a resident of Parque Amorim, a neighborhood in Belford Roxo, a municipality in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region, faced one of the most devastating storms in the area. Living in a two-story house, he watched as floodwaters surged into his backyard, leaving him and his family stranded for days. Unable t
Adriano de Carvalho Mendes
Apr 28
![‘Pedala Queimados’ Brings Social Change Through Cycling in Rio de Janeiro’s Most Distant Periphery [PROFILE]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2e5d72_a04f44aad49144dba4aa73e708617786~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_1331,h_1000,fp_0.50_0.50,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/2e5d72_a04f44aad49144dba4aa73e708617786~mv2.png)
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‘Pedala Queimados’ Brings Social Change Through Cycling in Rio de Janeiro’s Most Distant Periphery [PROFILE]
The activities offered by Pedala Queimados include bike tours through rural areas of the municipality. Source: Pedala Queimados What began in 2015 as an initiative to encourage the use of bicycles as an economical and sustainable means of transportation soon developed into an association that integrates various demands of residents in Queimados, a municipality in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminenseregion. Officially registered in 2019, Pedala Queimados promotes the us
Adriano de Carvalho Mendes
Apr 28
‘Trash? Not to Us!’ Environmental Action in Rio Public Housing Complex Denounces Municipal Neglect and Proposes Waste Collection as a Source of Income
Several sites of accumulated waste appear throughout the housing complexes of Barros Filho. Photo: Amanda Baroni Lopes This year, International Workers’ Day took on a different meaning at the Haroldo de Andrade public housing complex, in the Rio de Janeiro North Zone neighborhood of Barros Filho. Bringing together around 30 people—men and women, adults and children, residents and participants from environmental movements and organizations—the “Trash? Not to Us!” collective ac
Adriano de Carvalho Mendes
Apr 28
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