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Published: October 13th 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/world/americas/13brazil.html?_r=1
I was looking through the new and saw a pic I recognized, yup, that's Salvador, my temporary home.
This community has been autonomous for the last 15 years, taking care of their problems without police involvement, etc.
But yeah, Carlinhos Brown went and got the/his community to work together to get infrastructure and build a music school and promote exchanges between the kids of the middle class neighborhood just beside it and the kids of Candeal.
There are a lot of slums around the city. Big communities of poor people. Not ghetto or anything, just poor folks without many means of climbing up the social ladder.
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Lucy
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That's so cool. The person who started the development class where I went to Africa, told us a story of some rich guy who had money to help a poor community (I think, in Brazil). He asked the community leaders what they want money for. He had money to give them things like piping and pumping water from the local watershed. But the leaders wanted musical instruments. They explained that as a community, they would gather, play music, and that was the place where they would discuss problems and solutions to those problems. So they didn't want infrastructure, they just wanted musical instruments so that they can have their gatherings. I thought that was really interesting.