Movimento de Defesa do Favelado

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Examines the MDF, Movimento de Defesa do Favelado, a grassroots movement to create awareness and bring much needed relief to the impoverished and unsanitary favelas, or slums, of Brazil's cities. I...

Examines the MDF, Movimento de Defesa do Favelado, a grassroots movement to create awareness and bring much needed relief to the impoverished and unsanitary favelas, or slums, of Brazil's cities. Interviews with people involved in the organization, people living in the favelas, and people in political power, are interspersed with footage of the poverty and squalor of the favelas in cities such as São Paulo.

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