Delivery startup makes Black Friday possible for favelas in Sao Paulo

A start-up based in Sao Paulo’s second-largest favela, Paraisopolis, says it will make some eighty-thousand deliveries around the city’s favelas during this year’s Black Friday.

The company began modestly in 2020, aiming to meet the needs of residents who constantly had their deliveries denied by companies.

Many areas were controlled by drug dealers, and they featured very narrow streets and mixed-up addresses.

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