Kilometer Six

waiting for food and juice

main road. An old banner, advertising a mobile company’s newest deal, makes up the front wall of a house, across the “street”

livestock pen

entrance to a house

down a side street

animals roam inside, and outside, the houses

A river runs through it…it’s sewage.

one row of houses

inside

inside the house of one of our boys from Ponta Negra. Six people live here. Four sleep on the bed, one in the hammock….

and our boy sleeps on the dirt floor

just down the lane

This one looks good to me; it’s made with better materials.

a door without a house….yet

sitting on the banks of the sewage stream

They are filthy. There is no running water. They have no shoes. They are covered with sores and rashes, they are malnourished, filled with lice and bichus in their feet.

living room

Side street