The Island

Joina Brito, 36, gives a lesson at the school set up in a shack to the few children of the oasis. She teaches 11 children, all being part of her family. She is been teaching the children for 16 years, when she replaced her mother. In Queimada dos Britos lives around 60 people. In the oasis everybody is a relative, cousins intermarrying frequently as a normal course. The legend says that the founder Manuel Brito, when running away from home due to a drought that was scorching his homeland, he ended up settling down in the only non-sandy portion of the Lençois.

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Joina Brito, 36, gives a lesson at the school set up in a shack to the few children of the oasis. She teaches 11 children, all being part of her family. She is been teaching the children for 16 years, when she replaced her mother. In Queimada dos Britos lives around 60 people. In the oasis everybody is a relative, cousins intermarrying frequently as a normal course. The legend says that the founder Manuel Brito, when running away from home due to a drought that was scorching his homeland, he ended up settling down in the only non-sandy portion of the Lençois.