To deal with the need to serve a huge underserved population, civil society created several initiatives. With the objective of providing cohesion and interconnection between them, and systematizing the information, other actions prepared catalogs, observatories and maps, which locate and describe interventions and facilitate the forwarding of donations and other support.

Several associations and movements linked to the fight for housing and urban reform launched a monitoring to give visibility to the omissions of the public power in the fight against Covid-19 in the peripheries. Monitoring is carried out throughout the country, through questionnaires that are being applied in each specific community or group.

The Popular Memory of the Pandemic is a project for recording and disseminating reports on popular experiences in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The website was developed by Plataforma Dhesca Brasil and there it is possible to navigate through the memories of individuals and groups, who narrate their experiences and strategies for coping with the pandemic.

In addition to browsing through the memories available on the website, you can also participate in the Popular Memory of the Pandemic us your report . Sharing your experience can be a way to safeguard heritage, strengthen resistance in the present and build the foundations for the future.