This is just for students to do extra research if they have got interested etc. - I've been trying to develop things for students to do more of their own independent work... Also, this could be used with A-level students or even for AQA Bac / IB extended essay type projects.

1. Improving the quality of life in Rio favelas
Further research / reading
http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_summer2002/eyeon/improve.html - simple but highly
relevant website about how the Favela-Barrio Project has been improving two favelas in Rio –
Roçinha and Villa Canoas
http://tiny.cc/VivaRio - Viva Rio projects covering
(1) Community Outreach, e.g.
- fast-track schooling for NEETs;
- Ana and Maria for pregnant teenagers and young mums (and dads);
- Viva Cred – providing credit at low interest rates for people to start businesses;
- Fight for Peace boxing club;
- Neighbourhood Gardeners – training young people to grow plants;
- Future Club computer training;
(2) Communication, e.g.
- Viva Favela website and forum for residents;
- Community Radio project – setting up locally-run radio stations in favelas
(3) Security, trying to combat the use of guns in the favelas (more people die in Rio from being
shot than from respiratory and heart disease, cancer, HIV Aids and traffic accidents put
together)
http://tiny.cc/BBCGaudiFavela - a man in a favela has built his house in the style of Gaudi!
www.2bros.org/ - (Two Brothers) a US project trying to improve quality of life in Roçinha through
education, using students and teachers on exchange visits / gap years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7871208.stm - Ten killed in favela police raid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7870395.stm - President Lula visits Santa Marta favela
(with a video clip about how the police are apparently becoming much more of a community force,
rather than just concentrating on law-enforcement.
http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/geoweb/blowmedown/shanty05.swf - an simple animation
showing how favelas develop over time
http://www.mokoomaha.com/afarai/wordpress/?p=44 – two videos of projects in Rio favelas, with
famous artists and musicians working with local youths to produce huge, cheerful paintings for
display in the street
http://www.mokoomaha.com/afarai/wordpress/?p=30 – JR’s huge poster prints of photos of women
in Morro da Providencia favela (the first favela to be made in Rio)
If you can access YouTube, there are various videos on their that give sometimes very different
views of life in the favelas, from poverty, crime and misery, to vibrant communities with happy
people, a good quality of life and not bad facilities.
Try searching for:
“Rio de Janeiro – A Darker Side”
“Favela Painting Project – Pifworld”
“Favela Futures”
“Rocinha on saturday morning 15 september 2007”
“TOUR INSIDE FAVELA - ROCINHA TOURISM WORKSHOP”
“Favela Rising” (about the Samba schools that thrive in the favelas)
“Favela Rocinha” (1st
4 mins – boring after that)