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PT We are a communication lab that supports emerging collectives in low-income areas to strengthen well-being through community information.
An email for those who practice and reinforce community communication.
Énews is the newsletter from Énois Communication Lab, bringing reflections and pathways to strengthen communication in low-income communities and democracy in their lives.
Inequality is a hallmark of the recent democracy, ,
and low-income communities are the most affected.
Peripheral communities, especially Black women, trans people, and Indigenous people, need relevant information for their lives.
Misinformation perpetuates exclusion, limiting access to basic rights such as health, education, and culture.
Misinformation reaches
89
%
of residents in low-income communities
(Data Favela)
Black women earn
40
%
LESS
than non-Black men and face higher unemployment.
Black people and women are the least represented groups in decision-making spaces and the most affected by all dimensions of inequality.
Énois believes that information can make a difference in the life of a community.
We strengthen communication organizations in low-income communities across all Brazilian states, ensuring access to essential information on education, health, safety, and justice. We value local knowledge and connect communities to expand their access to opportunities and rights.
We work so that the information produced and distributed serves communities through three strategies:
Community research and networking
We map organizations and leaderships to build networks that strengthen territories through information.
Innovation and experimentation
We create communication products based on local experiences, promoting democracy and social development.
Financial and technical support
We provide resources and training for the sustainable development of community communication organizations.
We are proving that the peripheries can have an independent and transformative community communication
R$ 1,2 million
invested in strengthening of local organisations
600 organizations
of strengthened local communication
“If I hadn’t entered the Énois Network, my communication vehicle, the only independent of my state, would have closed.”
Tero Queiroz,
Teatrine TV (Mato Grosso do Sul)
“ Énois' support was fundamental to structure Brazil's first journalistic initiative dedicated to the coverage of the trans population agendas. With this, we were able to update our website with news dedicated only to these themes."
Câe Vatiero,
Transmídia (São Paulo)
“ It was with the strengthening of Énois that we were able to expand the Amazon Charter from a podcast to an agency and even a school. Today, we operate independently and already generate financial returns, which seemed impossible.”
Cecília Amorim,
Carta Amazônia (Belém)
“As a local journalism initiative in Maceió, we face many difficulties to capture resources. The support of Énois allowed us to continue existing..”
Géssika Costa,
Olhos Jornalismo (Alagoas)
Prato Firmeza is our main methodology and product to map and articulate in Territories, starting from the food.
Toolbox Gathers Knowledge developed by organizations to create communication that transforms the territories.
Who do we do all this with?
The indicators of gender, race and territory have also been our starting points when the subject is team, management and collaboration.
We are a group composed mostly of black women and people, mostly present in the states of São Paulo, Pará and Pernambuco. At the end of 2023, Sanara Santos started to compose the direction of Énois being the first trans, black and peripheral woman to occupy this position in a journalism organization in Brazil.
Our supporters
The work of Énois Laboratory contributes to the UN Agenda on the SDGs
