Luciano Ramos, Tassia Áquila, Camila Rebouças Fernandes, Viviane Cristina

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We dedicate this material to Gisele Rodrigues Alves, mother of 04 children and adolescents participating in the Youth Project for the End of Violence in Morro do Guararapes – Rio de Janeiro, who passed away on 08/22/2021. Gisele and other families in an extremely vulnerable situation were part of the reasons for preparing this report. Gisele's care for her children was inspiring to us. We will continue to take care of each child, teenager and young person like Gisele took care of her children. And fighting so that no woman has her rights violated. So that no child or adolescent develops without guaranteed basic care.

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Thank you for teaching us so much, Gisele.

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Youth Team for the End of Violence, Practicing Sports, Winning in Life

 

This report seeks to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of 108 families enrolled in the Young People for the End of Violence project — playing sports, winning in life, in the territories of Guararapes and Morro dos Prazeres, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The scenario of worsening health crisis and economic crisis, mainly affecting favela residents, imposed new dynamics in the course of the project. It became necessary to adapt not only the activities that were previously in-person to the remote mode, but also to carry out more direct actions, such as the distribution of basic food baskets to the families served. To assess the context and living conditions of families, the need to outline their socioeconomic profile was identified. The data and analyzes revealed how the impacts of the health crisis are inseparable from asymmetries marked by gender, race and class. The importance of Promundo's actions, in this sense, enhances interventions that address these crossings, whether in political advocacy actions, community interventions, promotion of public policies or even in widespread articulations with public facilities, such as the Rights Guarantee Network. In this way, this report contributes to guiding practices in transforming social relations towards gender equality, confronting racism and reducing the use of violence. Any action that aims to mitigate the socioeconomic effects of the pandemic must embrace these markers by proposing substantive transformations based on public actions — social protection, health, education and basic sanitation — and transversal ones — guaranteeing the peripheral population's access to basic social rights.

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