International Studies

I am living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil right now and working with an NGO down here. We are working with the favelas of Rio and trying to get more international attention on the favelas. The current issues of peaceful productive favelas being slated for removal with little to no input from the people living there are extremely hypocritical. There is a certain community here, called Vila Autodromo, that is the first on the chopping block so it is the community we are currently focusing are energy towards helping. This community is very productive nearly 100% employment and all the kids are in school, which is a great thing for any community and very rare for a favela. We will be spending a lot of time in this community as well as directly attending as many political meetings as we can that pertain to this neighborhood. I have more stats at the end of the e-mail and I would love to provide you with any information that I can get for you. I will be working down here for the next three months but the work we are doing will be going on long after the Olympics come and go.