Projeto Focus is a photovoice project involving 8 young people who live in the Complexo da Maré, which is a community that consists of 16 different favelas (slums) in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area. Maré inhabits around 160,000 people and is mostly governed by two main groups of organized drug trafficking. Inhabitants live in and out of a civil war that goes unrecognized by state authorities.
Through this project we have participated in workshops and learned about photography in order to "focus" on how sexuality, gender and human rights
(or lack thereof) play out in our own lives and communities.
Because of where we live, we must go to greater lengths in order to obtain an education, learn about our rights and find ways to access the healthcare we need. With your help, we will be able to tell the world our stories and design educational campaigns in our communities that will help give us a stronger sense of our rights and a greater sense of our self-worth.
This project has been coordinated by Kylene Guse, M.A., with the help of Promundo, an international NGO based in Rio de Janeiro that works to promote gender equality and prevent violence against women, children and young people in Brazil and around the world.
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