Travel facts!

Favela

Cause thats the life when ur

Living in the ghetto and

Eating in the ghetto or

Sleeping in the ghetto

Did you know that the Brazilian economy is the tenth strongest in the world?! But in Brazil there is also one of the biggest gaps between rich people and poor people. One third of the 188 millions of Brazilians are living in extreme poverty.

The definition of a favela is a neighbourhood where people are building houses on land own by the government. The favela grows without any control and has no real roads. The favelas are very often controlled by drug kings and they are also the ones keeping everyone safe inside the favela. Thefts inside the favela are taken very seriously.

Nowadays all the favelas have electricity and water because of the investments the Brazilian government made a few years ago. The government has also tried to move out people from the favelas by building free apartments for them to move into, but that resulted in people selling their apartments short after they moved in there and then moving back into the favela! For the money they gained by this affair they could buy bigscreen TV and some other stuff that they always wanted but never could afford.

Jair's nephew's band inside Jair's favela