Definition of
Favela
Favela is a term from the Portuguese language that refers to a substandard housing. By extension, a favela is called neighborhood marginal formed by this type of informal constructions.
Depending on the region, the favela can also be called shanty, Misery village (or villa), cantegril, dump either population shut up. In general, the concept refers specifically to the poorest neighborhoods of the cities brazilian.
The favelas, therefore, are slums that are in Brazil. Those who live in the favelas do not have a title property of the land or the house, which they raise without authorization or controls. Because these neighborhoods grow in a disorganized manner and without foresight, their inhabitants suffer from a lack of infrastructure and a lack of essential public services.
The development of the favelas is linked to the poverty. Without chances of accessing decent housing in the urban centers that offer greater employment possibilities, many people are forced to settle in these types of places and build their houses however they can.
The hundreds of favelas that are distributed in the hills of Rio de Janeiro constitute one of the postcards best known in this town. The Rocinha and City of God They are among the most famous.
Those who live in the favelas not only suffer from poverty and precarious living conditions typical of the place: they are also victims of unsafety. He State many times it is difficult to control these areas that are usually a refuge for delinquents and criminals.
But one of the most serious problems in the favelas, as in any other region in which poverty is concentrated in this world, is teenage pregnancies, or even during childhood, of girls who should lead a life commensurate with their age. , whether studying or playing, enjoying their youth and the freedom that the adults around them refuse to respect.
The picture of an adolescent carrying her child down the street is very common in the favelas, and there are several reasons why maternity comes so early in these areas: on the one hand, there are rapes, which can affect very young girls, small, many of whom risk their lives in childbirth or in the abortion; but there are also adolescents who get pregnant apparently voluntarily, because they do not have any higher expectations in their lives.
Many of the adolescent mothers in the favelas have a partner, and in fact raise their children together, taking charge of taking them to the pediatrician and to school. But this does not mean that they carry a life normal and comfortable: most of them live in the family home, together with their parents and grandparents, where from a young age they learned to take care of their siblings and thus the maternal instinct awoke in them that they later wanted to put to the test with their own seeds.
It is important to note that there are some measures that the government takes to reduce the rate of pregnancy during adolescence, and there is no better tool to combat this situation than the education. For example, there are groups that are dedicated to organizing awareness campaigns to teach them that there are other opportunities besides motherhood, such as study and professional goals.
The people who really approach the favelas to help their inhabitants in a disinterested way assure that the stereotypes that usually represent them from the outside are unfair and incorrect. Poverty does not always lead to crime, much less should it separate people into groups; If the distribution of opportunities were fair, no one would be forced to live in situations of so much need