Transforming Lives in Brazil’s Favelas
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Brazil’s poorest neighborhoods – favelas – are often characterized by inadequate access to essential services like clean water, sanitation, and electricity. They are home to marginalized communities facing severe economic hardship and living in overcrowded, unsafe conditions due to the country’s severe housing crisis. With school dropout rates in these communities at about 36%, and youth unemployment often exceeding 30%, these communities are often trapped in poverty.
How are local Brazilian organizations providing pathways out of poverty for favela youth?
Brazilian community organizers, favela youth, along with Stanford students and scholars discussed how skills training is empowering Brazil’s most vulnerable communities. The conversation took place using the Portal & Piazza pop-up space on the Stanford campus, which offers immersive audiovisual technology connecting people across Shared Studios' global network of portals.
About the Hosts:
Instituto Família Chegados
Instituto Família Chegados is an organization based in São Vicente, in the São Paulo municipality of Brazil, dedicated to transforming lives in underserved communities through education, culture, and social entrepreneurship. The institute’s language school, GlobalHood, offers English courses and skills training that prepare people from vulnerable communities for opportunities abroad.
Shared Studios
Shared Studios is a human connection company, facilitating transformative conversational experiences through their immersive portals and virtual exchanges. They have portals in nearly 20 countries around the world, and have connected over 600,000 people, bringing the world together despite distance and difference.
Stanford King Center on Global Development
As Stanford's research hub on global poverty, the King Center on Global Development provides scholars with resources to tackle some of the world's most critical problems and turn insight into action. They are inspiring the next generation of global thought leaders by fostering conversations on critical issues in development.
Stanford Lemann Center
The Lemann Center works to support the success of Brazilian efforts to make a giant leap forward in their educational system, with a particular focus on improving learning opportunities for disadvantaged students both inside and outside of the public education system.
Guilherme Lichand
Guilherme Lichand is an Assistant Professor of Education at the Stanford GSE. His research focuses on sources of educational inequities in the global South and on solutions with the potential to overturn them. Guilherme is a co-founder of Brazilian EdTech Movva, a student success management system supporting vulnerable students graduate college. He is also a Faculty Affiliate of the King Center on Global Development and Co-Director of the Lemann Center.