DOCUMENTARY "CITY OF HOPE: A CHILDREN'S STORY": Memories of Brazil

City of Hope: A Children’s Story documents the stark life of Brazil’s favela (slums) children, and is a feature-length documentary capturing the lives of displaced children caught in a seemingly unending web of drugs, violence, prostitution, sexual slavery and deliberate acts to exterminate these unwanted children. In a country with an enlightened government, it is also a film of hope and salvation as both government and Brazil’s affluent private sector work to save these children.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Memories of Brazil

Brazil is one of the most amazingly beautiful countries that I have traveled through. The landscape goes from one extreme: waterfalls, high deserts to beautiful beach's. I spent time on an island of Salvador call Moro de Sao Paulo. Met two wonderful girls and their families. Our guide Joel took my fiend Heidi and I on quite an adventure. But even with all the amazing beauty there is still the extreme poverty. Brazil has more children on the streets than any other SouthAmerican country. There are many children born into family's with alcohol and drug addicted parents. In many cases these children are forced into selling themselves on the street, steeling money and anything else they can grab. These children really need any help that they can get.