January 2018

Many residents in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro rely on a public transportation route to connect them to various important areas nearby. Yet it dwindled from multiple to one unreliable bus. The remaining bus driver created a WhatsApp with live updates that quickly grew to an entire community.

To prepare for the World Cup and Summer Olympics, thousands of low-income people in Rio de Janeiro were forcibly evicted. Many people ended up in Queimados, a county with poverty and violence that lacks transportation. Carlos de Oliveira changed this by showing residents how to build their own bikes.