SAO PAULO, Brazil — Edmilson Venturelli has something different to offer slum kids accustomed to the gunfire, police sirens and gangsta rap that echo through the city's largest shantytown — Bee-thoven ...
A favela (Brazilian slum) in Rio de Janeiro now has a soccer field that harvests energy through the steps of kids playing on it, providing energy to the surrounding neighborhood. In its largest ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Sunlight seeps through holes in the roof, illuminating the graffiti-covered walls of an abandoned building where kids created a makeshift dance studio in Rio de Janeiro's Borel ...