São Paulo’s favelas are running out of food. These women are stepping in. COVID-19 is worsening hardship in Brazil's working-class settlements, so this group is giving out 6,000 free meals a day.

Dozens of Brazilian yoga aficionados saluted the sun in unison in a Rio de Janeiro favela for the inaugural class of a free ...

The virus has struck Brazil’s poor, mostly black favelas disproportionately. In São Paulo, people who live in poorer areas and contract the virus are up to 10 times more likely to die than ...

A major plan to revamp Campos Eliseos in central Sao Paulo has led to clashes between the government and residents who say they’re being forcibly removed from the neighborhood’s Favela do ...

São Paulo — A thunderstorm breaks the afternoon heat for a few moments in Portelinha, a favela in São Paulo. The rain pushes raw sewage and debris along narrow streets and downhill toward the river.

SAO PAULO — Un grupo de niños recientemente hizo fila para recibir sus tajadas de una enorme torta azul en un centro comunitario de Sao Paulo. Pero no se trataba de ningún cumpleaños: era el ...

And Paraisopolis is Sao Paulo’s second-biggest favela, home to 43,000 people, according to the most-recent census, in 2010. Recent, unofficial counts put its population around 100,000.

In Rio de Janeiro's Rocinha favela, Brazilian residents are receiving free yoga teacher training, enabling them to overcome ...

It’s a Saturday afternoon in Jardim Colombo, a favela southwest of São Paulo, and residents have gathered in Fazendinhando Park for a community clean-up event. Volunteers in bright pink T-shirts swirl ...

A start-up based in Sao Paulo's second-largest favela, Paraisopolis, says it will make some eighty-thousand deliveries around the city's favelas during this year’s Black Friday. (AP Video ...

The Dz7 Dance takes place in Paraisópolis, the second largest favela in Sao Paulo, with a population of close to 100,000 people. Some 12,000 of its inhabitants are illiterate or semi-literate.