The residents of Rio de Janeiro's Santo Amaro favela celebrated the inauguration of a new skate park on Saturday (March 22). The Ademafia Institute, an NGO, worked in partnership with two other ...

This has led to the growth of shanty towns, which are called favelas ... Many children have to work to support their families. A 1995 survey found that almost five million children in Brazil ...

Brazil (CNN)-- Rain-induced flooding over large parts of Brazil have killed at least 31 people and left another 500,000 homeless, the government's civil defense agency said Thursday. About 270 ...

AFP HAS GIVEN THE CHILDREN OF THE RIO ... into their daily lives in the favela. The project was the initiative of Christophe Simon, AFP’s chief photographer in Brazil, who when covering the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Four people died on Monday after a fire at a shelter for the homeless in a city in southeastern Brazil, Sao Paulo’s secretariat for public security said. A 42-year-old ...

An Australian man who went viral in Brazil for befriending gangsters in Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous favela says he wants to use his notoriety to help children he met in the slum. Hugo Cary ...

Karim takes the boys to Salvador, Brazil to work on their Capoeira skills. After all, if they can't learn Capoeira taught by the best in a Brazilian favela, they can't learn it anywhere!

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Four people died on Monday after a fire at a shelter for the homeless in a city in southeastern Brazil, Sao Paulo’s secretariat for public security said. A 42-year-old man was ...