Sustainable development blog : ecology and humanitarian aid

We have received lots of messages asking us how to build a house with plastic bottles. Here is a how to guide to get that done. Hope it Read more »

Translated by Vanessa Morrell from De Caracas aux Barrios de Petare, à la découverte d’une autre réalité.

The word “shanty town” takes a new shape and form as we visit the South American continent. Its omnipresence is so crucial to our understanding, that its name even takes a different shape as we cross borders. Chabola, villamiseria, favelas in Brazil, we call them barrios in Venezuela. The term originates from the word “quarter” in academic Castilian speak, but now holds an entire new sense in Chavez’ Bolivarian Republic. 

Bordered by hills-the city of Caracas and its shantytowns Read more »