2. A favela is the term for a shanty town in Brazil, most often
within urban areas
The favelas are the residences of poor
people built on hillsides around major
cities. In many cases they are on public
and private property and are illegal.
3. Life is generally full of deprivation, with limited access to
public services, such as plumbing, treated
water, sewers, hospitals, schools, telecommunications, pav
ed roads, garbage collection, public illumination, etc.
4. These rural people are low
skilled, poorly educated which makes
it more difficult for them to find jobs in
the city and they end up living in
favelas as the only places they can
afford to live and hope to find work. It
is estimated about 1m people live in
these areas now in Rio with the
largest Favela having a predicted
population of around 60,000 people
5. • 1,000 approximate number of favelas in Rio De Janeiro
• 20 Percentage of six
million people in the
city’s metropolitan
region who live in
favelas.
• In the favela they don’t
have to pay rent, they don’t
pay electric bills or water.
All they
have to do is find food.
6. • Asentamientos in Guatemala
• Baraccopoli in Italy
• Barrios de invasión in Colombia
• Basti in India
• Bidonvilles in France
• Campamentos or poblaciones callampa in Chile.
• Cantegril in Uruguay
• Favelas in Brazil
• Gecekondu in Turkey
• Invasiones in Puerto Rico
• Poblados chabolistas in Spain
• Pueblos jovenes (young towns) or barriadas in Peru
• Tent cities in the United States
• Tugurios in Costa Rica
• Villas miseria or just villas in Argentina
• Zona marginal in Mexico
7. As Ronaldinho and his
family lived in a wooden
house in a favela
He was considered a
wonder child from the
age of 17
He started playing at
streets in Favelas
