The small Lutheran church in Belem has a tremendous charisma. For her dance group IACA include more than 80 young people; they connect with their music group throughout the country and are also present at the World Social Forum. Their CDs are selling well.
few blocks from town center, in the favela Vila da Barca on the river, the town maintains a social project for children and young people in three different age groups. It is about cultural education in a district, the high unemployment of parents, particularly sexual exploitation of children, drug trafficking and violence is shaped. The community it is important to enable children and young people and work with them perspectives. The offers take on the situation of children, such as in-house developed theater. Musical instruments are built from waste, but instead used.
seen by the state and the municipality, the community, however, not supported. Than four years, the favela has been restructured, and the building was demolished and the community assigned a far smaller, inadequate temporary, in the share with now 50 children and young mothers, a group of a room. For this year finally a new solution was in prospect.
The Favela itself is built on stilts over the river: an ensemble of small wooden huts, which are accessible via bridges, densely packed, and there a tiny shop or a small garden there. The faeces are based directly the outhouse or the built in the cottage pig pen in the river, as is the waste, because waste disposal is not for the favela. 90% of the 3,000 families who live here have an income of less than 400 reais (about 130 €). The alternative to the Vila da Barca seems to be more than another favela.
Because the soil was washed away increasingly from the huts, succeeded in Vila da Barca in the 2003 launched by the Lula government program include urbanization. Against the people who wanted a "revitalization" of the grown structure, ie a mounting pile of the village, the political authorities decided to build 136 apartments in the immediate vicinity, each with a bathroom and three or four small rooms in two storey construction. A year after its completion, we see them to not remember how young they are. To poor quality construction is the fact that in heavy rain - not to mention the very high water - the water through the concrete floors suppressed. The constant moisture is not to resolve. The community has turned on because of proven corruption, the national audit office, so that the continued construction of the new settlement had to be set.
But the community does not only advocate for of the people. They also tried to convey a basic legal knowledge, educate about rights, self-help to give. "Empowerment is the goal, that is strengthening or empowerment. Cibele kiss, the pastor of the church is, for some time ombudsman for the observance of human rights in Belém. As chairman of a team of 15 employees, both representing civil society and the Office of Public Safety, she keeps contact with the prosecutor, can see all the documents of the cases complained and interviews carried out. It passes the EED delegation a documentary about human rights violations and killings committed by policemen. (See blog police violence and Straflosigkei t). In January 2009 alone there were nine killings, seven of Cibele kiss has been initiated. The relatives find refuge and support in the community, and they finally have a hope in a transparent, under the conditions and with the means of the law out of criminal proceedings against the police.
Christine Busch
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