You can find anything using Google. You can find good restaurants, you can find doctors, heck, you find a place that does a good colon cleanse if you want too. I’ve seen homes of the rich and famous, and I have seen lots of other things using Google Maps, why not some of the poor areas of the world?

Rio’s favelas are home to a third of the city’s population, but are almost invisible on maps — a situation five young women are trying to change with the help of GPS and the Internet.

Rafaela Goncalves da Silva, 21, has lived in the Santa Marta favela, a poor and dangerous slum that was recently the target of a police pacification operation, since she was two years old.

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