SupporttheIBISSproject:communitywork
For €1,200 a year IBISS can place an assistant community worker in a favela for
one day a week
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Communitywork
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Creating living neighbourhoods
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Hercules,
community worker in favela Complexo da Penha:
“The state cannot deny the existence of our favelas
anymore.”
IBISS-programme:Communitywork
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For creating living neighbourhoods and communities
IBISS works with communities and neighbourhoods in the most socially excluded
and extremely violent favelas of Rio Janeiro. The government hardly has any
access here and there are no facilities. Together with the inhabitants of the
neighbourhood, IBISS decides which problems have to be and can be tackled first.
This can be, for example, the creation of sewerage systems and running water or
a medical post, education projects or starting a football school. In this way, the
living conditions are improved. IBISS uses the method of community organisation,
also called community work in special situations and works in more than 25
neighbourhoods.
Community work: Using and strengthening talent in the favelas
Through community work, IBISS uses and strengthens existing talent in the
neighbourhoods. IBISS does this by using community workers to mobilise the
favela communities to stand up for their rights in infrastructure (water, sewerage,
roads, etc.), health care and education. They fight for their rights together with
the neighbourhood councils at the city council and state of Rio the Janeiro. When
community groups, sports clubs and community leaders work together, their
power and influence is greater. The community workers working for IBISS do not
implement the projects themselves, but they support local organisations and
initiatives to solve local problems themselves. Where possible, groups are given
responsibility for the community work projects.
Community workers are especially needed in the ‘pacified’ favelas
In the past, there was a dictatorship run by the drug cartels in the so-called
‘pacified’ favelas. Now that the ‘pacification’ has started, the conditions almost
resemble anarchy. Everyone does what he/she wants and no one knows the new
rules or who the ‘leader’ is: no one is accountable for the area. In the pacified
favelas, community workers support neighbourhood councils. These councils
need extra support to become democratic and to create a structure in the
community.
Recent preliminary results of the community work programme
In Complexo da Penha, the ridges around the very poor favela Vacaría
have been strengthened with concrete barriers to prevent landslides from
happening during heavy rainfall. This work was supervised by IBISS’
community workers and paid for by a loan from the World Bank to the
city of Rio the Janeiro. As a result, Vacaría is no longer a high-risk area.
In 2013, together with the inhabitants of Furquim Mendes, a renovation
plan was developed in which the favela was equipped with a water and
sewerage system. This plan has now been approved by the city council
and will be executed at the end of 2013. IBISS community workers in the
neighbourhood will do the supervision.
“A clear structure is missing in the pacified areas,
which means that community workers are needed to
start and support community councils”