Our guests gain exciting and meaningful travel experiences, bringing sustainable economic development to low-income favela residents, non-profits, and favela-based businesses.

We help to facilitate communication and collaboration and to diminish the barrier that can sometimes make it difficult for non-favela organizations to connect with locals in order to develop innovative and impactful ideas, projects, products, and services. We also seek to connect international communities facing similar socio-economic issues to find common ways to develop inter-community dialogue and collaboration to solve commonly faced problems and barriers to growth.

Favela Experience successfully conducted a World Cup focused Indie-Gogo campaign that raised R$95,000 and resulted in hundreds of foreign travelers staying in Rio’s favelas across 8 different properties with 0 security issues or negative reviews. We've been featured on CNN, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Huffington Post, NPR, Reuters and more.

Currently, Favela Experience is developing and operating tours and experiences in Vidigal, the most safe and receptive favela of Rio de Janeiro. We have generated over R$250,000 in sales, we have attended to over 300 guests, and earned over R$120,000 for favela hosts and non-profits. Favela Experience has never received investment or outside financial grants or subsidies year to date.