Associação de Apoio à Criança em Risco Diadema - Brazil
An immense city, an extremely young population and latent poverty are enough conditions to form an abandoned youth, isolated in the middle of the urban madness. Sao Paulo, particularly the area of Diadema, is sadly known for its street children Gregory John Smith said no to all this and is committed to overcome the fatality. Day by day he builds a new future for the kids he encounters in the lost neighborhoods of the megapolis. More or less five years of intensive work are necessary to make a kid rediscover the pleasure of living and open his/her eyes to a decent future. Learning a skill in a hands-on fashion and lots of friendship, taking responsibility in the organization of local events, Capoeira work shops: these are the concrete solutions that give the kids a desire for tomorrow, for a better life for themselves