Sentence examples for in a favela from inspiring English sources

Is There a Role for Preservation Planning in a Favela?

He had spent the morning in an operation in a favela.

Think Shirley Bassey meets Amy Winehouse in a favela drinking cachaça.

Yet he had never set foot in a favela and set about trying to find out how he could.

My first day in a favela — the name given to the country's slums — put everything into perspective.

It must once have seemed a good idea to spend a weekend in Rio de Janeiro, watching a song-and-dance show in a favela.

"I never tell people on the outside that I live in a favela, not even the people I work with," admitted Robert.

Fabiana Maria da Conceição, a 33-year-old mother of two who lives in a favela in the state capital, hailed the growth when I visited in September.

In 1997, Luke Dowdney bumped into a young man carrying a Colt AR-15 rifle as he came round a corner in Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro.

[There is] war between police and drug gangs," says Eduardo Lima, a PE teacher who lives in Fallet, a favela in central Rio.

But I did spend time in Nicole's apartment in Chapeu Mangeira, a favela in Rio de Janeiro.