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.
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Description Australia in 2013 made radical immigration policy changes. They struck a deal with its former colony, Papua New Guinea, called the “Papua New Guinea-Australia Migration Agreement.” With this, the forced migrants seeking asylum in Australia were relocated to the Manus Regional Processing Centre. This is an offshore detention center in New Guinea that they
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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.
