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Kids walk and gather outside an occupied building in the Mangueira “favela” community on August 9, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hundreds of residents who live in the surrounding structures must collect water from hoses as there is no running water in the buildings. Residents often must burn trash due to a lack of public services. Much of the Mangueira “favela” community sits about a kilometer away from Maracana stadium, the site of the opening and closing ceremonies for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The stadium has received hundreds of millions of dollars in renovations ahead of the World Cup and Olympics. The Morar Carioca plan to urbanize Rio's favelas, or unplanned settlements, by 2020, was one key social legacy project heralded ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The plan has mostly failed to materialize. Around 1.4 million residents, or approximately 22 percent of Rio's population, reside in favelas which often lack proper sanitation, health care, education and security due to gang and police violence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images,)
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