Issues of Rio de Janiero

Question 1

Challenge of Health Care

Answer 1

Only 55% of the city has access to a family clinic

Access to healthcare is varied across the city

Question 2

Solution to Health Care

Answer 2

Medical staff took health kits to inaccessible favelas and were able to detect different diseases and treat them
Health care was made free to everyone
Lots of health care training facilities

Question 3

Challenge of Education

Answer 3

Only half of children continued education beyond the age of 14
Shortage of schools and teachers
Lack of money in families, so there was a need for teenagers to work

Question 4

Solution to Education

Answer 4

Giving school grants to poor families
Free sports lessons
Opened a university in a favela

Question 5

Challenge of Water Supply

Answer 5

12% of Rio’s population had no running water

37% of water lost through leaks and illegal access

Question 6

Solution to Water Supply

Answer 6

300km of new water pipes and 7 treatment plant built

Question 7

Challenge of Energy Supply

Answer 7

Frequent power cuts and blackouts

Poorer people get electricity illegally

Question 8

Solution to Energy Supply

Answer 8

New power lines and a nuclear power generator built

Question 9

Challenge of Unemployment

Answer 9

Rates are over 20%
People of forced to work in the informal sector
Work is poorly paid and irregular

Question 10

Solution to Unemployment

Answer 10

The schools of tomorrow programme aim to improve education in poor and violent areas
Free childcare so teenage parents can return to education

Question 11

Challenge of Crime

Answer 11

Powerful gangs control favelas

Murder, kidnapping and armed assault is regular

Question 12

Solution to Crime

Answer 12

Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) were established to reclaim favelas from drug dealers
Police have taken control of some crime-dominated favelas