*A remoção da ocupação de Itaoca não tem relação com a Olimpíada 2016. A equipe de 100 foi procurada via WhatsApp por Camila, que nos enviou a sua história. I am an ex-resident of the Skol community, which was on Avenida Itaoca, 2277, in Inhauma, in Complexo do Alemao. It was between 1999 and 2000, more
We lived there for more than 40 years. They got a lot of signatures to get us out of there. Recreio was becoming an area just for the rich, and they didn’t want poor people living nearby. It was Pedro Paulo from the City Hall in Barra. He came to our house there, measured the
Cristiane Alves de Paula, 39, unemployed When I got home, it was written on my door. A number, and some letters. I said to my ex-husband, “what’s going on?” He said “we’re going to have to leave. The bus rapid transit (BRT) line is coming here.” They gave us a deadline, it was one week.
My mother and father’s name is Marguerida. I am 88, but my birth certificate says I am 91. It was one of those confusions, you know, there is always one of those. My mother came to Rio to work as a maid. I brought my children up here, though one of them, the oldest, died.
They sent us all away from there. That was a long time ago, three or four years. We went to City Hall to hear a meeting there, I took all my documents, we did everything properly. They said now, everyone will have to leave, all the houses were going to go down. They knocked everything
It was one of those occupations that we suffered a lot of pressure, we had a very hard time. It was a building in Francisco Bicalho, which had belonged before to DOCS, and I had lived there for eight years. There were a lot of children and families there. When you look at how many
My name is Rita de Cassias, I’m 40, I am what they call a “carioca da gema.” I lived there in Metro for 27 years. I lived in a very small house, it wasn’t well-built. The roof had a lot of fissures in it, and when it rained, and it used to rain a lot,
Central do Brasil is a great place to live, for those that know how. Sometimes, people will say it’s this or that, but it’s not the rubbish that people make it out to be. There are a lot of great people, and bad people too, just like anywhere. You just have to know where to
My name is Helena Lopes, and I’ve got eight children, you know? We lived in the Quilombo da Gamboa occupation, it was good there. There were no drugs or anything like that, the children could play as much as they liked. I lived there for seven years, I went to live there in 2003. I
