Broadening horizons in Brazil

Earlier this year, Habitat Brazil partnered with young volunteers from Guilherme Dummont Villares and Saint Francis high schools to improve the living conditions of 18 families in the favela of Heliopolis.

After attending Habitat-led workshops explaining housing issues in the community, the group of 15- and 16-year-olds raised funds and awareness, painted houses and murals, and engaged local youth in a soccer match, highlighting the event’s tagline: “We are all neighbors.”

“Sharing with these people, helping them, it’s a good way to see a different side from where we live,” says student Gustavo Bueno Soares. “This contact and this experience were very important for me.”