The Right to Health Axis has a headquarters in Baixa do Sapateiro, one of the 15 favelas of Maré, where it brings together the work teams of all its projects and carries out specific actions, mainly of service and direct listening to the population. This is also the base to receive, organize, and distribute the food from its Food Security project, in addition to the planning and development of other projects.

The warehouse was initially organized to receive donations of food baskets and hygiene kits from the campaign “Maré says NO to the Coronavirus,” in 2020. Then, in 2022, the space became a delivery point for the first edition of the Maré Without Hunger campaign, in which 1,493 food baskets and cleaning kits were distributed to families by the social team of the organization.

Now named the Health Warehouse, the space consolidates the action of the Axis by offering a base for project coordinations, research, and for the Food Security Front, which now has its own place to organize and carry out donations. In this way, the presence and the impact of Redes da Maré in different regions of the territory are expanded.

Photo below: Photos 01 and 02: Home visit team of the Maré Vaccine Research.

THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH WAREHOUSE

As a result of the campaign “Maré says NO to the coronavirus,” the facility was initially organized to receive donations of food baskets and hygiene kits. In 2020, the deliveries were carried out at the Maré Arts Center, but from the return of the activities of this facility, everything needed to be readjusted and new spaces were being renovated or created.

Over the months, donations for other projects of Redes da Maré also began arriving at the warehouse. After the consolidation of the Right to Health Axis, the team gained a new workplace.

In December 2022, the first edition of Maré Without Hunger campaign was carried out and the warehouse became the delivery and dispatch point for the donations of 1,493 food baskets and cleaning kits for families from Maré, accompanied since the beginning of the pandemic by the social team of the organization.

Photos 01 and 02: Distribution of food baskets to the residents of Maré