From the Final Remarks:

On the one hand it highlights the fight of the favelas’ inhabitants for their rights. On the other hand it emphasises historical inequalities that have characterised the favelas’ working class, which is composed of immigrants who, over the years, have settled in those communities and who represent a workforce at the service of more privileged social classes.

In this context, transculturality is applied in the practice of cooperation, empathy and respect among other attributes inherent to the genesis of the slum and the slum dwellers, such as the diversity of their colour, their race, their history, their origins, their culture, their values, their interests.

The slum residents in Brazil face a challenge, day and night, to have better living conditions and to get access to the most basic rights. This effort requires network intelligence and collective organisation.

Diversity and respect are essential ingredients that explain the historical setting of the social fabric of the favela Santa Marta, which acts as a driving force to face adversity and socio-environmental problems.

Insolar is an example of a social enterprise that, on the one hand, pursues environmental and economic sustainability and, on the other, uses the community’s resources and empowers its residents and local leaders. With its project, Insolar is trying to fight social inequalities which hinder individual and collective development at a personal, local, regional and global level.