The Street Children of Brazil (Part 2)

There are two parts to this interview. Below you will find the links to both parts and more details about the video.

http://tinyurl.com/streetchildren-1
http://tinyurl.com/streetchildren-2

Shot in the early 1990s, this vidoe documents the life and struggles of street children in Belo Horizonte, the sixth largest city in Brazil.

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Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Brazil
• Street
• Children
• Belo
• Horizonte
• Homelessness

[Luvmypets123]

I have always had a dream of helping street children of Brazil. I am too ill to go and help them, so I will help them finanacially. God Bless them x

[TheInformalstyle]

Fui assaltado pelo meninos assim quando estava em Sao Paulo de ferias. Senti pena deles e tirei o dinheiro da minha carteira pra dar uma nota de 20 reais pra eles comprar um lanche e eles pegavam o meu dinheiro tudo (uns 800 reais) e saiu correndo e tambem pegavam os meus occulos do sol e tavam querendo pegar o meu colar de prato tbm soh q nao conseguem tirar...

[Saura74]

As always black and dark skin children message Brazilian black mulatto poor = life unworthy of living sick and sad.

[Storywithin]

I HAVE RESEARCHED A LOT OF THESE PROBLEMS WITH STREET KIDS AND TEENS AND IT IS A WORLD WIDE PROBLEM BUT ALL THE SAME IT IS NOT GOING TO GET BETTER UNLESS THE GOVERMENTS TAKE ACTION AS THEY SHOULD GOD BLESS ALL THESE KIDS

[epicface112]

U wanna know what fucking sucks? Police in Rio de Janeiro consider them as pests, so they put bounties on there heads and kill them for money. WHAT THE FUCK? IS THAT SHIT EVEN LEGAL???

[Valete85]

@Apostolmcqueen portuguese obviously

[Apostolmcqueen]

they speak spanish?

[LadyScorpio39]

@Cecinovis

yes, thats true. and brazil is not the only country with such problems. they are many in the third world.

i believe the cause to be lack of education about birth control, religious doctrine that forces people to have more children that they actually want or can care for, and oif course governments that continue to spend m ore money on big business than on the the welfare of there people.

Also the unequal distribution of wealth that seems to be part of many of these countries.

[Cecinovis]

@LadyScorpio39 Of course there should be no children on the street! I said Brazil is getting better, today there are fewer homeless children than before. But Brazil has still a LOT of problems to resolve. We are getting better, but we are not a developed country yet.

[LadyScorpio39]

@Cecinovis

it doesnt matter if there were only 3 children on the streets in brazil!

there should be no children on the street at all!!!