Brazil

It is almost time to go back to school again. There will be many children from Jandira, a suburb of Sao Paolo, eager to start the new school year. In South America the school year runs from February to December. With expectant faces and backpacks filled with pens and notebooks, the children set off to meet their teachers. There is a group of children in the same city, however, for whom going to school is not so one-two-three. They are the ones from "Casa Familia e Vida", a children's home on the edge of one of the favelas, the slums of which there are so many in Jandira.