00:00I had a conversation with a boy named Washington.
00:04He was 17 years old and he'd been living in the street for 10 years.
00:09Out of those 10 years, he had been in prison for almost 2 years.
00:14He said when he was in prison that older boys raped him.
00:20He said that when he was in prison, the police beat him.
00:24Beat him until he thought he was going to die.
00:29Last year, 461 street children were murdered, were killed.
00:36In Sao Paulo alone, one city, 461 children were killed.
00:421,200 were killed nationwide.
00:46Killed as a result of violence and gangs,
00:50violence by the police,
00:53and violence by death squads.
00:57This information I got out of the national newspaper published in Sao Paulo.
01:17Right now I'm at the Center for the National Movement to Protect Street Children here in Belo Horizonte.
01:23Over the last couple of years, the government has made a real effort to try and help these street children.
01:29Now in this country, Brazil, there are between 7 and 8 million street children.
01:34Two years ago, they passed an act in government.
01:37They passed a constitutional law giving street children a few basic rights.
01:43First of all, they have the right to a nationality.
01:46Now they have a right to an education.
01:49They have a right to a place to play.
01:52They have a right to equality.
01:55They have a right to a great many things that I've always taken for granted.
02:00They've only gained this right in the last year or two.
02:04Also, according to this act,
02:09according to this act, these children now have the right to a name.
02:14Something they never had before.
02:17Homeless children without a family, a place to live, or a name.
02:24Hopefully things are improving.
02:29That's Bebeto on the left and Adriana on the right.
02:34And this is Cheyenne here.
02:36That's Adriana's daughter.
02:39And Adriana is Bebeto's girlfriend.
02:45And Adriana is pregnant again.
02:48This time with Bebeto's baby.
02:52She's about 15 or 16 years old.
02:55I asked her how old she was and she said 12, but I don't believe her.
03:00She's expecting her baby in about a month.
03:03And she's come to the center here looking for help.
03:08I think it's going to be very difficult for them.
03:17I know it'll be difficult.
03:20We just came out of the center here for the street children
03:24and these guys had a couple of chickens.
03:27Eric asked them where they got them and I guess they stole them.
03:31They're going to go eat them.
03:34They're going to go eat them.
03:36What did you say they're going to do with them, Dorff?
03:39He told me that the chickens were bought across the street, but they were stolen.
03:46He said they're going to cook them, clean them, and eat them.
03:50I'd say these two chickens are in big trouble.
04:05One of the little boys just told me that they have three alternatives
04:10if they want to survive.
04:13The first is to beg.
04:16The second is to steal.
04:19And the third is to work.
04:25Street children don't really stand much of a chance of getting a job, though.
04:30So they have to beg or steal to survive.
04:41There was a lot of violence within the bands, within the gangs of these street children.
04:47This guy was pushed off the roof of a building.
04:52It was only two stories, but it did a lot of damage to him.
05:00He's hurting pretty bad.
05:05I came in today to the Center for the National Movement for Street Children,
05:11and they've been able to give him some first aid, luckily.
05:17Hi, what's your name?
05:19Fabio.
05:21How old are you?
05:2314.
05:25This is Fabio, and he's 14 years old.
05:28How many years have you lived in Cuba?
05:32Three.
05:35He's lived in the streets for three years now.
05:43These kids just came off the street.
05:47This little boy's name is Vandele.
05:50He's 13 years old. I just asked him how long he's been living on the street.
05:54He said he didn't know.
05:56But he took his shoe off to show me something.
06:06The authorities don't allow street children to enter buses,
06:10so they have no way to get from one side of town to the next.
06:13Most of the time, these children just grab onto the bumpers and hold.
06:18They hold onto the rails, whatever they can grab, and ride on the outside of the bus.
06:24Well, Vandele fell off, got ran over by the ONI bus.
06:35He's not sure how long it happened, when it happened, or how long ago it was.
06:42But he's never going to walk right again.
06:53At five o'clock, this place closes down.
07:00It's almost five o'clock.
07:05These kids will all have to leave.
07:09They'll have to go back out on the streets and fend for themselves.
07:14They'll have to go back out on the streets and fend for themselves.
07:38Almost eight million children are left homeless in the streets of Brazil.
07:42Almost eight million children live in a world of cruel violence and drugs and rape.
07:47Four hundred and sixty-one children were killed in Sao Paulo alone last year.
07:52Over twelve hundred nationally.
07:54It really hits you hard.
07:57We gathered information from this video from talking with children who live in the streets,
08:01and talking with people at the National Movement to Support Street Children here in Belo Horizonte.
08:06We also gathered our information from national newspapers like this one,
08:10and from books like this one written by Gibralto Demstein.
08:14The title of this book is War on Children.
08:40No woman, no crime.
08:45No woman, no crime.
08:48No woman, no crime.
08:55No woman, no crime.
09:02No woman, no crime.
09:10No woman, no crime.
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