Rio Provides Basketball School to 500 Students Across State
The basketball school Escolinha FlaBasquete, set up by the State Department for Sports, Leisure, and Youth, in partnership with Flamengo...
March 20, 2018Topic
youth
Brazil to Invest R$157 Million in Program for Rio’s Favela Youth
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s federal government launched the Emergency Program for Social...
November 14, 2017
Forty Percent of Children Under 14 Live in Poverty in Brazil
Report shows seventeen million children under the age of fourteen - equivalent to 40.2 percent of the Brazilian population in...
March 21, 2017
Social Action for Music Reaches 1,000 Youths in Rio Favelas
Social Action for Music of Brazil currently serves approximately a thousand students for free in communities with Pacifying Police Units...
January 23, 2016
Rio to Implement Policies to Decrease Thefts on Beaches
Objective is to prevent mass robberies of tourists and residents alike at crowded beaches by groups of youths
November 17, 2014
Occupy Leblon has Small Start: Daily
A group of young, self-declared anarchists occupied an area of Leblon Monday afternoon, close to the residence of Rio governor...
October 29, 2013
Rousseff Sanctions ‘Youth Statute’: Daily
President Rousseff has sanctioned the long-debated Youth Statute, which grants half-price access for students and poor young people to cultural,...
August 6, 2013
Rio NGO Sends Young Artists to CalArt’s CAP
Community Arts Partnership (CAP) sends Brazilian youths to study at an intensive three-week course in July at CalArts, in Los...
July 12, 2011
USAID and Esso/ExxonMobil, Film in Amazonas
By Ananda Alves, Contributing Reporter [caption id="attachment_13961" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Esso/ExxonMobil headquarters in Rio: (From left to right) Director of USAID...
November 10, 2009