Sis. Alvear's Official Picture Thread

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You are doing a marvelous work dear sister, I wish there were more like you.

sincerely from a brother in Christ.

[Sister Alvear]

wow...thank you...43 years on the mission field and counting...

[Sister Alvear]

Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world with a population of approximately 166 million people. The disparity between the rich and the poor in Brazilian society is one of the largest. The richest 1% of Brazil's population control 50% of its income. The poorest 50% of society have to live on just 10% of the country's wealth.

[Sister Alvear]

In Brazil, Latin America's giant, 32 million children and adolescents live in families with incomes of less than 40 dollars a month.

[Sister Alvear]

In Brazil 4,611 street children were murdered between 1988-1990. In 1993, eight children and adolescents were killed in a shooting near the Candeleria church in Rio. Between 1993- 96 juvenile court statistics showed over 3,000 11 to 17 year olds met with violent deaths in Rio. The majority believed to have been murdered by death squads, the police or other types of gangs. In Sao Paulo, for example, 20% of homicides committed by the police were against minors in the first months of 1999. 69
• In Brazil, when the body of 9-year-old Patricio Hilario da Silva was found on a main street in Ipanema in 1989, there was a handwritten note tied around his neck. "I killed you because you didn't study and had no future," the note read. "The government must not allow the streets of the city to be invaded by kids." 70
• Death squads in Brazil can earn up to $50 for killing a street child.

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