Community Voices Heard

Members of Community Voices Heard recently returned from a trip to Brazil where we spent one-week with an amazing group based in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro– CONGESCO (www.catcom.org/index2.htm Project No. 68 “Voices From the Edge”). The members of this network of community managers serve their communities in different ways: from distributing condoms and providing HIV/AIDS education, to running after school soccer clinics for kids; from teaching elders how to read, to doing projects of school reinforcement; from making art work out of recyclable materials, to teaching dance and theater. You name it, they do it. Each community member does the work not because there is a paycheck that they expect to get, but because it needs to be done, and someone has to do it. Their passion for bringing hope and change to their communities leaves them with no other option.