Street Art in Brazil's slum districts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13389594

Here's a link to a street art project in Rio's poorest areas. Its based around a project to create murals on some of the buildings and encourage tourism into the area. A fantastic idea, it just goes to show that art can really have a significant impact on people's lives.

This is a small report from 'the strand' an arts programme on the BBC world service. I have to admit I've not heard of this before, despite listening to some BBC world service programmes - I must check it out!