Rio de Janeiro is the second biggest city in Brazil.
Their population is 11. 2 million people, people also live in shacks made out of mostly wood. The poor people are usually called “favelas”.
In cities like Sao Paulo the poor live on shacks made out of wood or other materials that they can find along their way.
These shacks are growing fast because most people come to the city to look for opportunities but then later find themselves living in these shacks. The houses that they build are very basic, there is usually 2-3 rooms were they do everything.
Their families are supported by their father working or making things such things as sandals out of old car tires.
Most kids go to school, but most of the time the school doesn’t have enough money to buy paper or pens. They have big plans for their futures however; they don’t know that their parents are expecting them to work to support them. Some of the children go to school in the morning and in the afternoon they go to the city to work as shoe-shiners.
Also, these people have to face something else than poverty, that’s the smell and the spread of diseases, no electricity no sanitation and no proper water which can spread cholera.
They don’t have enough facilities, however, the government is trying to help them by building new strong houses out of concrete in another area; these new houses will have basic stuff like clean water, electricity, sanitation, although they don’t have everything they will give the houses to the people so if they want the house to look better they would have to improve it themselves.
There are also shops, a bank café-bars and job centre, but like many favelas there is drug selling and gang violence everywhere.
To the opposite, the middle city people live on
city live in multi-story buildings. These buildings are high raise apartment blocks. People live huddle up together around noisy and polluted neighbourhoods. But even in these conditions they are far better than the favela people.
Most of these flats are also guarded by security because like anywhere else there is violence.
However, the rich people live in mansions near the beaches of Sao Paulo. They have large swimming pools and nice gardens; they are protected by high security walls. Some of these are homes are of high political, industrial and land-owning rulers.
They own expensive cars, have servants and probably have other homes in the countryside or abroad. All these people make up 10% of Brazil’s richest people. They also have 50% of the country’s income.
Looking at all this information that I have here, the gap between rich and poor is still widening whatever the government is trying to do to help the lives of the poor people.
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer
Brazil may be developing in some very good ways, they keep making money but it doesn’t reach to all the people.
