“Quem só via a favela pela violência, passou a enxergá-la a partir do coronavírus”

Eliana Sousa Silva, founder and director of the NGO Redes da Maré.
Source: El País, photo by Elisângela Leite (Redes da Maré).

Felipe Betim

28/03/2020

Text originally published in El País

“Since the coronavirus landed in Brazil, several civil society organizations, activists, and community leaders have been mobilizing to work in the favelas and protect the most vulnerable people from the pandemic. Eliana Sousa Silva, founder of the NGO Redes da Maré , which has been working for decades in the Complexo da Maré favela complex, especially in the areas of education and public safety, is one of these leaders who has been structuring actions to combat the coronavirus .”

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