"Olá, meu nome é Kimroy Bailey e minha esposa é Sherika Trott Bailey. Minha família e eu moramos no CAEF no centro da cidade. Há uma série de incidentes negativos contra minha família que gostaria de relatar. Desde que moramos em nosso apartamento, poderíamos ter sido eletrocutados em três ocasiões...
In parts of São Paulo and Bahia, we heard a question that stopped us the first time: “Você conhece seu pai?” — Do you know your father? It wasn’t asked with cruelty.It wasn’t asked with surprise. It was asked like a normal getting-to-know-you question between children. That’s when we realized: this wasn’t an insult.It was...
Spend time in some low-income neighborhoods of São Paulo and parts of Bahia, and you start noticing patterns that children treat as normal long before adults talk about them. Not because people are bad.Not because families don’t care. But because instability has quietly become common. And children are always watching.
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.
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.
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