NOVA BRASILIA:
Nova Brasilia is the favela I chose to take a closer look into the life of an actual favela community.
Nova Brasilia’s development is essential towards figuring out how inequality affects a specific group of people. Public transportation around the actual city is efficient. But once it gets closer to the favelas they become less,a couple of buses takes residents to the main road entrance of the favela.
The government has tried to provide paved roads. They have widened the streets,which have been improved throughout the years in the favelas.
Houses are turned into shops, restaurants, pastries, even furniture stores. The favelas have become unsafe, but more organized because of the organization of the favelas. They presidents of the resident association keep folders and documentation of the favela residents, this has also created unity in the favelas.
Service providers began realizing that favela residents are potential consumers, so they began to sell their product, which serves better to the community because it lowered the price. Before, residents used Illegal lightening ,which was more expensive.
GLOBAL: A closer look into big corporations affecting the lives of favela residents.
The Coca Cola Bottling Company had a stronghold on its workers since it created many jobs surrounding it. Once Coca cola left, many favela residents were left unemployed for a long time. It was difficult to find other jobs since there were no unemployment pensions or anything that protected the rights of it's workers. They worked for minimum wage.
GLOBALIZATION: Mailing has developed in the favelas. It has made it easier to communicate, although there are no street names or numbers, residents association has found a way to distribute and keep families together. Drug lords have been preventing the naming of the streets because it will make it easier for the police to capture them.
Education: the great hope for social mobility is almost impossible because teachers do not show up and students become unmotivated and do not show up as well. It is enforced by law that students cannot be left behind, even if students do not grasp a clear understanding, they must continue to the next grade level.
Even the police stations that are set up in the favelas are scared to even step in because the streets are ruled by the druglords, as you can see the drug war takes a toll in everyday life, even the presidents of the associations are ruled by the drug lords.
