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Coach Divi’s favela project is making efforts to help poor families in Brazil to combat the unequal distribution of wealth in the country by rescuing dignity and engaging the children into recreational and sports activities, education, and evangelism. Brazil is one of the most economically unequal countries in the world with the top 10 percent of its population earning 50 percent of the national income and about 34 percent of all people living below the poverty line. Favela project is associated with Elohim Project (Prof. Nicolino Bello Junior), Freguesia do O Baptist Church, and Sao Judas Tadeu University in Sao Paulo City, Brazil.

A favela is what a shanty town is called in Brazil. Generally it is associated with immense poverty. Shanty towns are units of irregular and poor-quality self-constructed housing usually made first from wattle-and-daub, a mixture of sand and clay, and eventually to the use of wood, brick and sheet metal.                         

A favela is fundamentally different from a slum or tenement, primarily in terms of its origin and location.  It is also different from ghettos such as those in the United States in that it is racially mixed, even though favelas were first mostly made up of most Afro-Brazilians they slowly began to consist of many European immigrants arriving in the 19th century.