Favela Bairro Project

• Site and Service

  • Clean water supply for 26,000 people - reduces diseases
  • Added underground electricity cables - reduces illegal access
  • Installing street lighting - increases safety and decreases crime
• Government self help schemes

  • teaching labour skills to residents - future work, improve homes, government saves money in the long run which can be put into services.
• Cable car


  Access to the inner city for jobs, education and healthcare
• Babilônia Favela

  Had sewerage systems improved - improved sanitation, reduces disease