Brazil’s public health system — the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) — is often praised as universal and accessible. And it is. But using a Unidade Básica de Saúde (UBS) as a low-income family in two very different places — Sapopemba in São Paulo and Prado — reveals something important: Access to healthcare exists.Dignity inside the experience...
Every strong family you see did not become strong by accident. It was forged. Not in comfort. Not in stability. Not in ideal conditions. But in challenge. For our family, the “family challenge” was not a program we signed up for. It was a series of environments, pressures, and moments that forced us to...
(Enriched Edition – lived reality) On paper, integration in São Paulo looks organized. You receive documents. A CPF. Orientation. Temporary shelter. Food baskets. It feels like progress. But after the first few weeks, something quiet happens that no one explains: You are expected to integrate in a city where no one is actually integrated. Refugees Don’t Integrate...
When people imagine refugee life in South Korea, they picture modern facilities, clean housing, organized systems, and efficiency. When they imagine refugee life in Brazil, they imagine struggle, improvisation, and overcrowded urban life. Having lived as refugees in both places, our family discovered something surprising: One system looks better. The other feels more...
Walk through almost any neighborhood in São Paulo or coastal towns in Bahia, and you notice something quickly: Very little is left to the imagination. Not just among adults. Among teenagers. Among children. Sometimes even among grandmothers. At first, you think: It must be the heat. But after living inside Brazilian society for years, we realized the...
In big cities like São Paulo and towns across Bahia, one quiet problem shapes family life more than people realize: There are very few places where families can exist together without spending money. Not work.Not school.Not errands. Just space to be a family. The Invisible Pressure on Low-Income Families When you have little money, leisure becomes...
Trott Bailey Family: Observable insights: Brazil’s constitution guarantees the right to food and protection from hunger and malnutrition. But for many families — including refugees like ours — the reality on the ground tells a very different story. As our family lived first in Sapopemba and then in Prado, we saw firsthand that: Brazil’s welfare system...
by Sherika Trott Bailey Men Are Not Dogs — The Biggest Lie Told to Girls Growing Up Some beliefs don’t arrive loudly.They settle quietly into a child’s mind and stay there for years. One of the strongest beliefs Sher carried from childhood — shaped by Jamaican and American media, conversations in shops, music,...
A fun project that the Trott Bailey Family decided to use their wealth to embark on was to create a bot to track global internet traffic. This interested the family because while their site TrottBaileyFamily.com has over 194 billion monthly visits because they block Google bots and other web crawlers...
Yes, Homeschooling is allowed in Brasil. Homeschooling is the only way to grow your child to become a head and not a tail to become an independent thinker and a ruler and not a yes man, system cookie. The Trott Bailey Family has lived in America, Turkey, South Korea and...
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