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Brazil - For The Right Of Having A Home

25 images Created 17 Nov 2015

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  • Isidoro is located in a steep topography area. The region isn't attended by public services like water and electric power supply, streets pavement and sidewalks, among others. As the streets are made of clay, in the rainy season, the streets become of a path of mud, making the traffic in some areas complicated for both: people and vehicles. In the dry season, the dust of clay spreads in the air entering houses and shacks, what makes increase the cases of respiratory diseases and allergies, especially in children.
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  • Mr. Silva lives in a makeshift low quality plywood shack in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area. Even without many resources, he uses to share what he gains with his neighboors.
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  • Mrs. Sâmila holds his son, Isaías Felipe, while she cleans some kitchen utensils in a makeshift sink outside her shack at Vitória Occupancy, Isidoro region.
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  • Kids enjoying a leisure time inside a low quality plywood shack in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area.
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  • Mrs. Dulce lives alone in a makeshift low quality plywood shack in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area. As a retired worker, she receives a monthly payment that isn't enough to buy food and pay the rent, so she decided to move to Rosa Leão Occupancy.
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  • A man unloads a building materials truck at Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area. Employed people usually save some money during a time in order to make an upgrade from a plywood shack to a masonry house.
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  • Mr. Cícero and Mrs. Fátima met each other 22 years ago. They live in masony house in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area. Mr. Cícero is under medical treatment because of a disease in his prostate and needs to wear an urine collector bag. In order to arrive at the hospital, he needs to walk through steep streets to outside of the occupancy to take a bus because there isn't the public transportation system in this area.
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  • Mr. Matizael, on the left, and Mr. Reinato, on the right, are single fathers who live with their children in Esperança Occupancy, Isidoro area. They are afraid of the future of Isidoro and the possibility of not having home for raising their children.
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  • Kids enjoying a sunny afternoon in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area. Without easy access to electronic entertainment devices, children use to spend their free time playing outdoor.
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  • Mentees performing a Capoeira movement in a social project in Esperança Occupancy, Isidoro area.
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  • Baiano, in the right, whose name is Alessandro, performs a Beija Flor, a Capoeira movement. Baiano is a self-taught designer and Master of Capoeira, an afro-brazilian martial art that joins dance and fight. He coordinates a social project in Esperança Occupancy, Isidoro area, whose objective is integrates all community through sports. As a low-income initiative, all structure, musical instruments and uniforms are donated or achieved by community effort.
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  • Alessandro, whose artistic name is Baiano, shows a portrait, by his authorship, of his son. He lives in a masonry house in Esperança Occupancy, Isidoro area. According to Alessandro, his son lives with his mother, child's grandmother, at Vale do Jequitinhonha, Bahia, Brazil, because of the constant threatening of eviction in Isidoro and the hard conditions imposed by living in an occupancy.
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  • Mr Gervásio: "She is everything to me", he says while holds a 3x4 photography of his present wife, Mrs. Estelita. They live in a masonry house in Esperança Occupancy, Isidoro region. According to him, Mrs. Estelita has saved him from a deep depression state.
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  • Mr. Adão is a retired man who lives in Vitória Occupancy, Isidoro area. According to him, he came to Vitória Occupancy because of the high prices of house rental. In order to make some extra money, he works as a handyman.
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  • Mr. Luis poses for a portrait in Esperança Occupancy, Isidoro area.
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  • Davi, three years old lives with his mother, Mrs. Aline in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area.
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  • Eduardo poses for a portrait in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area.
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  • Lucas, two years old, lives with his mother and siblings in a makeshift low quality plywood shack in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area. Lucas and his two siblings suffer from bronchitis. According to his mother, Mrs. Maria Amélia, the employees of the Public Health Center that attends the Isidoro region argue that they aren't allowed from authorities to register and treat people from irregular occupancies, restricting to care just to emergency cases.
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  • Ana Caroline, nine years old, lives in a makeshift low quality plywood shack in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area. According to her mother, Mrs. Maria Amélia, as residents in an irregular occupancy, they haven't regular address and ZIP Code, which hampers to register children in school.
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  • Mrs. Maria Amélia lives in a makeshift low quality plywood shack in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro aea. She has three children: João - seven months old, Lucas - two years old and Ana Caroline - nine years old. She is unemployed and lives by donations. According to her, she is afraid of not being able to provide the proper support for her children's growth.
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  • Mrs. Maria and his son, Samuel, poses for a portrait in Esperança Occupancy, Isidoro area.
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  • Mr. Onéas make some cleaning in his cabbage planting in Vitória Occupancy, Isidoro area. People in Isidoro use to make small planting outside their houses.
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  • A woman hangs the cleaned clothes outside her makeshift low quality plywood shack in Esperança Occupancy, Isidoro area.
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  • Enzo Gabriel, two years old, enjoys a baby bathtube on a sunny day in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area.
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  • Kids enjoying a sunny afternoon in Rosa Leão Occupancy, Isidoro area. Without easy access to electronic entertainment devices, children use to spend their free time playing outdoor.
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