We recently visited Rocinha as a guest of Paulo Amendoim. Paulo was President of the Resident's Association for 8 years and currently runs various children's projects. As WillQ says, we felt a bit dubious about making the trip at first but now we are so glad we did. It was absolutely fascinating and Paulo showed us a warm, hard-working, close knit community as opposed to the stories of violence shown frequently in the media. Rocinha aside, Paulo also has a very mischevious sense of humour!

Phone: 3322 8498 or 9747 6860 Email pauloamendoim@hotmail.com

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