Six of every ten children in Brazil live in poverty
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Child neglect and poverty: A Brazilian study
60% of Brazilian children live in poverty. These include children up to 17 years old who are financially poor, meaning that they do not have access to one or more of the following: education, information, water, sanitation, housing and protection against child labor. Despite these challenges, some have made efforts and improvements to address the issue of child poverty in Brazil..
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The minimum monthly salary goes not much further in Brazil than it would in the United States. Food for one person costs at least $80 a month, but more than two-thirds of Brazilian families make less than $300 a month, some as little as $30, according to government figures. And most of these poor families are large.
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“Poverty, the work force, substance abuse, and general homelessness in Brazil are just a few of the many influences that affect the lives of street children.
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School is free and compulsory for students at the primary (ages 7–14) and secondary (ages 15–17) levels, but roughly three-fifths of Brazilians have only four years of schooling or less.
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Kids living or working on the streets.
500,000 girls
have turned to prostitution to earn a living. Some of these girls are as young as nine years old.
4.8 million
survive on no income at all.