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"Maja Andjelkovic" [ Profil ] |
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PART II - Impressions of my country, Cintia Dias
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Nov 17th, 2003 - 10:29:24 |
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From: Cintia Dias, Brasil
Subject: Impressions of my country PART II
CONTINUED FROM PART I
Those same people that do not have access to any kind of formal institutions are relegated to their luck or not, in the cities, they live in slums called "favelas" normally on the hills. There is no way of the government to reach there for two reasons: for not wanting or for fear of been killed in a place dominated by drug dealers with no laws, place that only grew due to the first reason. Of course we are all guilty for this situation, but the government and its formal institutions have a considerable part of it. The government just do not feel their existence in normal situations and go up to the hills when we have some insurgence of the drug dealers who live there with the poor population. Those poor people live with the risk of death everyday, the major part of the families is headed by woman, that sometimes enter the prostitution to help their families. I know many cases because my family has a social work by ourselves in the hills. We treat the families and the abandoned animals that live near us. One case that I can state is of a family with no father and mother and the head of the family is a 18 year old girl with a 2 year old son and 5 brothers and sisters. She has no education, she just survive and helps her family to survive too. The major difficult to help her and the others is that it is very dangerous to enter the favelas, we can the shoot, raped or other many things that occur in Brazil everyday. We that help people are in danger too.
But I work on the other side too, I have contact with the richest of the richest in Brazil and I introduce so many issues as possible. I have suffered harassment - and suffer -, many times, I just pretend I do not understand this power relation and, at the beginning, prejudice as well, it is really very difficult to be a woman who does not have a famous last name in my country, but this will never stops me and I tell people to never quit their main dreams too.
TO BE CONTINUED
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