The 12th of october is the "Dia das crianças" in Brasil (the children's day). My friend Eduardo since 1998 organizes the distribution of gifts to needy children in differences slums (favelas) of São Paulo.

With the help of friends and volunteers he raises money in order to buy the presents. No politics involved, no rewards, just the desire to help and give some happiness to all these childrens.
He invited me to join the group and i accepted with enthusiasm.

On the early saturday morning of the 12th, we met in his office and from there, after have loaded the truck with all the gifts, we met all the guys outside the USP (University of São Paulo) and from there we started our route.

The schedule was to visit the favelas of São Remo, Vila Dalva, Rio Pequeno, Sape and Ponta da Praia.

In each favela we met many childrens, music and party (apart from children's day it was also a religious day celebrating "Nossa senhora da Aparecida").

Great experience, i met nice people and we had a lot of fun, playing samba on the truck, eating churrasco and also i had a glimpse of the life inside a favela, something is not easy to do. 

Eduardo explained to me that every year he has to arrange this visit with the "owners" of the favelas, because otherwise it would have been impossible for us to entry inside these communities.

Here comes few picture of that day. The whole reportage soon on my web site.

Loading the track:

T-shirt logo (not the Metallica's one!):

A group picture:

Favela São Remo:

Waiting for the gifts:

Distributing the gifts:

On the truck toward Rio Pequeno favela:

Favela of Vila Dalva:

A moment of relax "sambando":

Favela Rio Pequeno:

Favela Sape:

Favela Ponta da Praia:

Nossa Senhora da Aparecida:

Walking outside the favela looking for a cab: