How to pronounce “favela” in English

It's the favela, so to speak, the slum of the capital.

So the favela is these individual pieces, I built a house, I built a house, I built a house, built without regard for law or for zoning statutes, what Haas and Hahn did is

In the favelas and slums of the world, there are people who are really using very, very little material and very, very little energy.

If you want to work in the favela, and you want to run a business, so you want to employ people, then you're probably part of this network

If you live in a favela outside of San Paolo--life is not so much fun, yet this is the context we all perceive Brazil.

The slums are usually the favelas in Brazil, the slums in any country, they're normally out of the central city, and they're usually

So when you think about the favelas that grew outside of cities like Rio, that's people realizing we don't have anywhere to live; we're just going to go and start to jerry-rig

Like if you live in la Rocinha which is a favela outside of Rio, you aren't going to work in la Rocinha.

The Rio Olymics-- they basically evicted tens of thousands of people from favelas to build stadiums.

And they call them shanty towns, favelas, a lot of different names.

Working in Brazil was amazing, and that's why in that favela, we're still working in that same community seven years later.

And in Brazil they ended up living in little tin cans up on the sides of hills called favelas.

Think of the 17 year old kid in Cairo, or the 17 year old kid in a favela outside of Rio, or in a township outside of Johannesburg,

At the same time, I don't know if you've seen the movie "City of God" about the favelas and the shantytowns in Rio.

It's gone from two hundred thousand people to two million people in a short amount of time and they had these vast shanty towns and favelas without running water