Touring Sao Paulo: Food, Culture, Street Kids, Ministry 
Paulo, whose mission in life is to help kids in Sao Paulo, took it upon himself to give us a grand tour of the city and what he does here. We decided we could trust him to take us to safe places. We took Cuyler with us; at 5 months you can put a baby...
Kids At Risk: The Slums (favellas) of Sao Paulo, Brazil
It seems that whenever you go to a house in Sao Paulo, you drive down some narrow street with businesses and narrow sidewalks on each side, and then you turn into what looks like an alley that leads to more and more alleys. They aren't really alleys,...
Sao Paulo Policman Combats Drugs with Music
Our next stop was in a nicer looking, but according to Paulo, more dangerous neighborhood. He said the first neighborhood would be generally considered "poor" but this neighborhood was closer to "middle class." We stopped in front...
The Beach, The Politics, The Economics of Brazil
No trip to a nearly-coastal city would be complete without a trip to the beach!Guaruja is 2 hours northeast of Sao Paulo, on the other side of some beautiful mountain ranges (and a valley of steel mills reminiscent of our own lovely Gary, Indiana, in...
A Plan Of Action For Americans Giving To Brazil
Well that's a big question, and all I can say is "anything is better than nothing." In Sao Paulo we met a 4 year old girl who's alive simply because a man from the US offered to pay her medical bills when she was born with serious complicat...