Quilombo project

Quilombola habitational dignity

Abstract

The article deals with the National Rural Housing Program and the Quilombola Housing Dignity Project, executed by the Advisory Institute for Quilombos Remnant Communities and Quilombola Community Associations. The perspective of construction in collective work (mutirão), returns the remaining communities of quilombos the prospects of collective and solidary work and intensively exercises community practices deactivated in the ambits of these communities. It emphasizes the feminine protagonism in the execution of the works and the unique character of this action.