Brazil's sprawling, low-income neighborhoods known as favelas have been largely left out of the global revolution in package deliveries. Now that's changing, thanks to a logistics startup founded by a 21-year-old.
Logistics company Favela Brasil Xpress deliveryman Jonathan Arcanjo, cycles through alleys to deliver orders in the Paraisopolis favela of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Packages have just started reaching doorsteps there, thanks to a bespectacled 21-year-old with a degree in information technology. Those who manage to place orders can receive excuses rather than products: notes with dubious claims they weren’t home when the delivery came, or that their address wasn’t located.
Even brick-and-mortar stores charge more to deliver appliances or furniture to favelas, or leave shipments at waypoints like residents’ associations. “It resolves the problem of mapping and this issue of breaking down the barrier of prejudice among people or logistics companies, who should deliver here inside, but don’t,” Pereira told The Associated Press. “Bringing companies from outside the favela into the favela totally breaks that paradigm that favelas only have bad things, and we show it is different.”In Sao Paulo’s metropolitan region, more than 2 million people live in the crowded favelas.
His project is reminiscent of another started several years ago in Rio de Janeiro’s biggest favela, Rocinha. Former census takers mapped the hillside neighborhood and established a base to receive mail from the postal service. For a monthly fee, the company distributes letters and bills to residents, though they still have to retrieve parcels.
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