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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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.
Even after Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary won an Oscar, she realized it meant little unless the Pakistani’s affected by the social issues in the film could see it. So she and her team converted a truck into a mobile cinema that allowed the films to be shown in remote areas of Pakistan.
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Although Truck Art existed in Pakistan before 2016, Truck Art Child Finder made portraits of missing children and put their relevant information on them, allowing them to be seen by people in deep rural and disconnected areas, with it even getting global attention, shedding light on the issue of missing children.
In Mindanao, Philippines, the roads are narrow and unpaved, with steep slopes that make it impossible for traditional four-wheel vehicles to pass. In the absence of traditional buses or taxis, Mindanao’s rural communities adapted a two-wheel motorcycle taxi, the habal-habal, to address a community’s mobility needs.
