The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) is a grassroots network to recognize, strengthen, and multiply community-based socio-environmental initiatives across Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, ultimately realizing the potential of favelas as part of a sustainable urban future.
The Sustainable Favela Network is a network made up of 1000 members, community organizers from over 300 favelas and technical allies.
We work together to realize climate justice by engaging the potential of favelas as models of sustainable communities. And we seek to promote existing qualities of Rio de Janeiro's favelas in order to recognize, realize and amplify their potential.
The SFN works along eleven propositive and interconnected thematic objectives, each reflecting clear goals for Rio de Janeiro's favelas: (1) climate justice, (2) socio-environmental education and research, (3) participatory policy-making, (4) local culture and memory, (5) food sovereignty, (6) collective health, (7) solidarity economy, (8) the right to sanitation, (9) energy justice, (10) just transportation, and (11) sustainable housing.
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![Groundbreaking Oral History Project—‘Favela Climate Memory’—Launches Final Exhibition, Fostering Emotional Connection Between Climate, Nature and Community [Video]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62be1bf90743823ca2bf0b07/1750800457420-XT0MWQ7106EPH1AU7GZQ/Publico-no-lancamento-2048x1052.png)
![When Memories Collide: ‘Favela Climate Memory’ Exhibition Launched by Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network [VIDEO]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62be1bf90743823ca2bf0b07/1724007026499-BF6MMIIMJX0WMFTFTF12/Lan%C3%A7amento+da+Exposi%C3%A7%C3%A3o+de+Mem%C3%B3ria+Clim%C3%A1tica.jpg)
