Brazil Favelas Delivery -- WEB
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- Brazil Favelas Delivery -- WEB
- March 29, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English BRAZIL FAVELA DELIVERY HEADLINE: Brazil’s Nameless Streets Are No Longer Shut Out of E-Commerce TEASER: With no street names and numbers, thousands of impoverished Brazilian homes were off-limits to online deliveries, but a young entrepreneur is starting to change that. PUBLISHED AT: 3/29/2022 at 8:40am BYLINE: Edgar Maciel CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: São Paulo, Brazil VIDEOGRAPHER: Edgar Maciel SCRIPT EDITORS: LR, MAS PRODUCER: VIDEO SOURCES: VOA PLATFORMS: WEB__TV__x_RADIO___ TRT: 2:38 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG UPDATE:)) ((INTRO)) [[In Brazil’s crime-ridden shantytowns, or favelas, there are thousands of streets and alleyways without names and postal codes. Delivery companies refuse to enter them, and their residents have – as a result – been left out of the E-commerce revolution. As Edgar Maciel reports from Sao Paulo, a 21-year-old entrepreneur is changing that in one of Latin America’s largest urban areas.]] ((NARRATOR)) Placing an order online and receiving it at home has become routine for people in most large, urban areas. Very practical and easy. But not for the 100 thousand people who live in this sprawling Sao Paulo favela known as Paraisopolis. Here, with no street names or numbers, dwellings can be found only by those who know the area well. To the postal service and couriers, this is no-man’s land. ((Giva Pereira, FavelaXPress Founder, MALE IN PORTUGUESE)) “And this problem only gets bigger with the disorderly growth of the communities.” ((NARRATOR)) To address the problem, last year Giva Pereira created the startup FavelaXPress. He cataloged each street of Paraisopolis and partnered with E-commerce companies and hired residents who know the neighborhood by heart. ((Giva Pereira, FavelaXPress Founder, MALE IN PORTUGUESE)) “To buy online, we had to put a reference point, pick up the order at a bakery or market close to home. And sometimes it's not even enough because the region is defined as a risk area. And today that changes because who delivers is part of the favela, he knows the streets, the landmarks.” ((NARRATOR)) Today FavelaXpress makes almost two thousand deliveries a day. ((Giva Pereira, Founder, FavelaXPress MALE IN PORTUGUESE)) “We are creating work opportunities and income for the residents. When we deliver a package, it's not just a package. We deliver happiness because from the moment he receives it at the door, he feels he belongs in society and enjoys a service he pays for.” ((NARRATOR)) In this Paraisopolis distribution center, 50 employees - like Douglas dos Santos – are busy. ((Douglas dos Santos, Delivery Employee, MALE IN PORTUGUESE)) “I have been working on the project for over a year now. I have lived here since I was born, so I’m close to everyone. Just mention a point of reference. We know it like the back of our hand.” ((NARRATOR)) As residents see it, the service has finally brought these previously forgotten areas in sync with the rest of the world. ((Bruna Thomas, Customer - FEMALE IN PORTUGUESE)) “We were having a lot of trouble. I even gave the work address so I could receive packages. It was annoying to keep asking. Now it's much easier and we buy whenever we want. We didn't have that right and we felt excluded. It's like now we can exercise our role as a citizen, right?” After more than one year of operations, FavelaXPress expanded its service. The company is serving five other communities in São Paulo and is now operating in Brazil’s second city, Rio de Janeiro. Pereira says the goal is to close the year delivering packages throughout Brazil, while creating jobs and solving a chronic problem for those who live on the fringes. ((EDGAR MACIEL, FOR VOA NEWS, SÃO PAULO))
- Transcript/Script BRAZIL FAVELA DELIVERY HEADLINE: Brazil’s Nameless Streets Are No Longer Shut Out of E-Commerce TEASER: With no street names and numbers, thousands of impoverished Brazilian homes were off-limits to online deliveries, but a young entrepreneur is starting to change that. PUBLISHED AT: 3/29/2022 at 8:40am BYLINE: Edgar Maciel CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: São Paulo, Brazil VIDEOGRAPHER: Edgar Maciel SCRIPT EDITORS: LR, MAS PRODUCER: VIDEO SOURCES: VOA PLATFORMS: WEB__TV__x_RADIO___ TRT: 2:38 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG UPDATE:)) ((INTRO)) [[In Brazil’s crime-ridden shantytowns, or favelas, there are thousands of streets and alleyways without names and postal codes. Delivery companies refuse to enter them, and their residents have – as a result – been left out of the E-commerce revolution. As Edgar Maciel reports from Sao Paulo, a 21-year-old entrepreneur is changing that in one of Latin America’s largest urban areas.]] ((NARRATOR)) Placing an order online and receiving it at home has become routine for people in most large, urban areas. Very practical and easy. But not for the 100 thousand people who live in this sprawling Sao Paulo favela known as Paraisopolis. Here, with no street names or numbers, dwellings can be found only by those who know the area well. To the postal service and couriers, this is no-man’s land. ((Giva Pereira, FavelaXPress Founder, MALE IN PORTUGUESE)) “And this problem only gets bigger with the disorderly growth of the communities.” ((NARRATOR)) To address the problem, last year Giva Pereira created the startup FavelaXPress. He cataloged each street of Paraisopolis and partnered with E-commerce companies and hired residents who know the neighborhood by heart. ((Giva Pereira, FavelaXPress Founder, MALE IN PORTUGUESE)) “To buy online, we had to put a reference point, pick up the order at a bakery or market close to home. And sometimes it's not even enough because the region is defined as a risk area. And today that changes because who delivers is part of the favela, he knows the streets, the landmarks.” ((NARRATOR)) Today FavelaXpress makes almost two thousand deliveries a day. ((Giva Pereira, Founder, FavelaXPress MALE IN PORTUGUESE)) “We are creating work opportunities and income for the residents. When we deliver a package, it's not just a package. We deliver happiness because from the moment he receives it at the door, he feels he belongs in society and enjoys a service he pays for.” ((NARRATOR)) In this Paraisopolis distribution center, 50 employees - like Douglas dos Santos – are busy. ((Douglas dos Santos, Delivery Employee, MALE IN PORTUGUESE)) “I have been working on the project for over a year now. I have lived here since I was born, so I’m close to everyone. Just mention a point of reference. We know it like the back of our hand.” ((NARRATOR)) As residents see it, the service has finally brought these previously forgotten areas in sync with the rest of the world. ((Bruna Thomas, Customer - FEMALE IN PORTUGUESE)) “We were having a lot of trouble. I even gave the work address so I could receive packages. It was annoying to keep asking. Now it's much easier and we buy whenever we want. We didn't have that right and we felt excluded. It's like now we can exercise our role as a citizen, right?” After more than one year of operations, FavelaXPress expanded its service. The company is serving five other communities in São Paulo and is now operating in Brazil’s second city, Rio de Janeiro. Pereira says the goal is to close the year delivering packages throughout Brazil, while creating jobs and solving a chronic problem for those who live on the fringes. ((Edgar Maciel, For VOA NEWS, São Paulo
- NewsML Media Topics Human Interest, Economy, Business and Finance
- Topic Tags Favela Brazil
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date March 29, 2022 19:24 EDT
- Description English In Brazil’s crime-ridden shantytowns, or favelas, there are thousands of streets and alleyways without names and postal codes. Delivery companies refuse to enter them, and their residents have – as a result – been left out of the E-commerce revolution. As Edgar Maciel reports from Sao Paulo, a 21-year-old entrepreneur is changing that in one of Latin America’s largest urban areas.
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