Daiene Mendes
Daiene Mendes lives in Nova Brasilia, in the Alemão favela complex in Rio de Janeiro, and works with a literacy project
August 2017
December 2016
- Rio voices: our Olympic odyssey‘The only Olympic legacy I see is repression and war’ – a year in Rio’s favelasFew visitors to Rio 2016 will see behind the ‘wall of shame’ – colourful murals that screen off the city’s poorer communities. Here, young journalists from favelas look back on 12 months scarred by Zika, landslides and police violence
July 2016
March 2016
Daiene Mendes in AlemãoRio voices: our Olympic odysseyRio Olympics: view from the favelas – 'The closer the gunshots, the stronger my heart beats'Daiene Mendes reflects on continued violence but also on the success of the annual Circulando street event in celebrating all that is good within the favela