http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2005/09/20/side-effects-a-day-in-the-community Comments for "Side Effects - A Day in the Community" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2005/09/20/side-effects-a-day-in-the-community <p><img width="200" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="right" src="http://www.brinq.com/workshop/images/community1.jpg" title="Coroado - a Day in the Community" /></p><p><i>Originally posted to the <a href="http://www.BRINQ.com/workshop/" title="BRINQ - Innovation at Play" target="_blank">BRINQ Workshop</a>. Patrick Donohue is a member of the <a href="http://www.BRINQ.com/kenya/" title="BRINQ - BoP Protocol Pilot in Kenya" target="_blank">Base of the Pyramid Protocol Pilot</a>, currently on a side project in Brazil.</i></p>“I’d love to hear your impressions,” Theresa said to me as we boarded the bus outside of Rocinha, “about what you think of the communities here vs. where you lived in Kenya.” Here was Rio de Janiero, Brazil and in Kenya was Kibera, a million-person shantytown in Nairobi, where I had just spent the <a href="http://www.BRINQ.com/kenya/" target="_blank" title="The Base of the Pyramid Protocol Pilot in Kenya">previous three months</a> living and working. Theresa and I were catching a bus to the outskirts of Rio for a visit with local community leaders and to spend a “Day in the Community” a regular event that brings together children and neighbors from six of Rio’s favelas, Brazil’s illegal communities. Theresa and I found a seat as the bus lurched forward and I sat there wondering about her request. <i>What preconceptions had living in an African slum given me about a South American one?</i><p><br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2005/09/20/side-effects-a-day-in-the-community">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2005/09/20/side-effects-a-day-in-the-community#comment Strategy Successful Models Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:42:35 -0400 _Patrick Donohue 1350 at http://www.nextbillion.net