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Posts Tagged ‘favelas’

May 10th, 2010 - 10:15 am § in Bolivia, Brazil, Culture, Day in the Life, Social Entrepreneurship

Sex and Violence Sells: But Please, No Gawking Allowed!

Why do people travel? Personally, I travel to see different landscapes, absorb local culture, photograph natural phenomena, hike beautiful mountains, and eat exotic foreign food. I think many people are in the same boat. Recently, both here in Brazil, and on vacation in Bolivia, I was introduced to [...]

March 17th, 2010 - 1:48 pm § in Around Town, Colombia, Tips & Resources

Working in the Barrios

Celeste’s fantastic post about favela tourism got me thinking about the differences between visiting and working with favelas (or barrios de invasion as they’re generally known in Colombia). One of the things that I most love about volunteering for Kiva in Barranquilla is that I’m in a city [...]

February 23rd, 2010 - 6:41 pm § in Brazil, Good Ideas

It All Started with Our Apple IIGS…

When I was little, my family bought a computer over which my sister and I would constantly fight. To quote a great movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy: “It was the most useful thing the gods had ever given them, a real labor-saving device. But the gods had been careless. They had sent only one. And [...[...]

October 28th, 2009 - 10:24 am § in Brazil, Good Ideas, In the Field, News

Putting the UNITY in Community

Last week, I introduced that Catalytic Communities is running in the Ideablob contest. We’re running out of time, so please vote for our idea! We would like to use the $10,000 in prize money to help give community residents of Rio a voice during the process leading up to the 2016 Olympic Games. It[...]





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