"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. Homes With Rotating Adults We saw...
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...
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,...
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