About “being rural” |
Distances |
[...] the closer you get to the town, the less Rural the area is [...] (João). [...] the access to go to the place is hard. (Neide) [...] 44 or 45 kilometers to the center of São João. (Leandro) [...] the neighbor is five hundred meters away [...] (Naiara) |
Communication |
[...] is very backward [post office services]. We depend on the Giarola Post Office, there near the settlement [...] (Giovana) An antenna very far, to throw to us here. Keeps falling, then there’s no competition (Ezequiel) |
External view |
The thing is that most people think of the rural area as backward people [...] (Naiara) |
Community |
It was the people here that planted the grass, we go doing work together, y’ know? (Neide) [...] my mom had a house over there; opposite my uncle’s house was our house [...] Everybody family . (João) [...] some houses that keep growing. But they’re few, but is of the family, one got married, just like me. (Ezequiel) [...] today nobody wants to get together. But when everybody is together is good, makes good parties [...] (Leandro) [...] What I don’t plant and my neighbor does and we swap and there’s always this relationship of living well together. (Naiara) |
Knowledge from generation to generation |
[...] knowledge that comes from generation to generation and that today is has little value [...] (Naiara) Then started to teach the kids to milk the cow [...] (Míriam) |
Existence of livestock and plantations |
[rural area] is you havin’ a cow, get some milk (João). [...] for those who want to live from the land [...] (Naiara) Ahh, all that I plant, do, I sell [...] (Ondina) There’s plantations that supply São João, they plant yam, deal with cattle, milk. (Giovana) Yeah, there’s orchard, I deal with the chicken. (Leandro) |
It is not rural |
[...] I don’t consider, … I think it is a place to plant and almost at the same time it’s turning into a town neighborhood. (Ondina) Not today [is rural]. [...] there are places much worse than here to call rural area (Neide) |
It is dying out |
Rural area is really dyin’ out... (João) [...] if you look today not even this here is rural almost, right? (Ondina) |
Existing policies |
Government support |
[...] we’re part of that program of family farming [...] (Neide) [...] to a festivity it gives support. (Leandro) [.. ] I supply for two state [schools] [...] (Ondina) |
Garbage collection |
Here the garbage truck comes every week and gets it. (Neide) [...] There’s a truck that comes and gets, from the municipal government (João) [...] garbage collection once a week. (Ondina) Friday is when the garbage man comes [...] (Giovana) |
Public transportation |
[...] here there’s bus once a month only… (Miriam) There was no bus here [..] But not now, I have a bus here every hour. (Neide) [...] the bus from the municipal government, to take the kids [...] (Neide) There’s the bus. (João) Bus there’s only from Monday to Friday. (Ondina) |
Road improvement |
The road a part, [...] you could not get... when it rained you had to go out shoes in hand. (Neide) [...] there was one time the road crumbled all down, we had to tie the trucks all [...] (Leandro) The people there gets a hard time with all that dust, the truck passes very close, got it? (Miriam) |
Necessary policies |
Water supply and sanitation |
[...] what we fight more for [...] is water. (Neide) [...] there’s cesspool, no treated sewage no nothing, and water, in the case, is cistern or water spring [...] (João) [...] we make a hole and make the cesspool. (Ondina) There it is still cesspool [...](Giovana). There’s no sewage system, here, in the case, the houses all use the cesspool system, there’s no water from the street (supply system), [...] gotta dig a well, that’s it. (Ezequiel) |
Lighting |
Put up public lighting. (Ezequiel) |
Leisure and tourism |
This thing of tourism, I think it gives that identity [...] (Giovana) Here there had to be leisure, for the old guys, for the kids [...] (Soraia) [...] we already asked for a project to the municipal government for them to put, what do you call it? These [work out] equipment, [...], we’re fighting to see that we get it... (Neide) |
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Here needed a doctor, pediatrician, at least every 15 days [...] (Miriam) There’s the doctor and the exams we have to do is usually in Resende Costa or Prados. (Neide) At least one health center to care for the community [...] (João) Health that we don’t have here. (Leandro) |
Need of road |
[... ] that pavement there in the street, hell of a dust… Road that if it rains, there’s no getting out [..] (Leandro) [...] a large part of the estate products is perishable, with that bad road, tends to “rot” [...] (Ronaldo) This road of ours is bad. ‘cause you havin’ a good path, [...] you can even sell and take (Ondina) [...] if the road is bad the bus starts to break down. (Ezequiel) [...] the greatest need for the subdivision today is the road, [...] (Naiara) Even the means of transport is difficult. (Neide) [the road] now in the rainy period gets even more rotten [...] (Giovana) |