Aleque Alvis dos Santos

Aleque Alvis dos Santos [Marcella Haddad]

Aleque feeding pigs

Aleque feeding pigs [Marcella Haddad]

Taisa playing

Taisa playing at the encampment [Marcella Haddad]

Dance class in recycled wigs

The Tarrafa project provides positive alternatives for young people at risk by helping them improve their own lives and the life of their community [Marcella Haddad]

Aleque Alvis dos Santos

Aleque Alvis dos Santos [Marcella Haddad]

Farmer Mira Rosa in Brazil

Mira Rosa with produce from the farm she and her husband set up on a legalised settlement [Marcella Haddad]

Guarani Kaiová teacher and pupils

Guarani Kaiová bilingual teacher Leia Aquino Pedro with her pupils [João Ripper]

Kitchen garden

Women working in the community kitchen garden in the North East Centre for Popular Medicine (CNMP) in Brazil [Marcella Haddad]

Nete de Araujo

Community outreach worker Nete de Araújo visits the bridge where she used to live [Marcella Haddad]

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Healthworker Sueli Torres mixes a health-boosting combination of ingredients called 'multimix' that is handed out free to children [Marcella Haddad]

Maria Jaira

Maria Jaira Coelho Rodrigues de Andrade now has a 2 bedroom flat in a long-term, legalised occupation in São Paulo. [Marcella Haddad]

Helder Camara

"When I ask why the poor have no food, people call me a communist.” Dom Helder Camara, 1909-1999 [Sean Sprague]

World Social Forum poverty banner

Action against poverty banner unfurled at the World Social Forum in Brazil, January 2005

World Social Forum demo

Activists call for a better world at the World Social Forum in Brazil, January 2005 [CAFOD]

Families occupy disused land in Brazil

CPT works alongside rural communities, such as these families occupying disused land near João Pessoa, Brazil [Marcella Haddad]

Marcos Arruda of PACS

Marcos Arruda of PACS [CAFOD]

Jacir and Pierlângela from the Makuxi and Wapixana tribes

Jacir José de Souza (right) and Pierlângela Nascimento da Cunha from the Makuxi and Wapixana tribes. Jacir is also founder of CAFOD partner the Indigenous Council of Roraima [Joelle Hernandez/CAFOD]

Sister Dorothy Stang

Sister Dorothy Stang, a leader of the Catholic Church’s Pastoral Land Commission [REUTERS/Imapress/AE/Carlos Silva]

Brazilian farmer

Jerônimo Odilon da Silva on the legalised settlement in which he now lives [Marcella Haddad]

Jose Oscar Beozzo

Jose Oscar Beozzo, director of CAFOD partner CESEP [CAFOD]

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Mira Rosa, 37 wife of Jeronimo Odilon da Silva, 38 at the pig farm they set up on the legalised settlement bought by INCRA (National Institution for Colonisation & Land Reform) [Marcella Haddad]

Jose Oscar Beozzo, director of CAFOD partner, CESEP

Jose Oscar Beozzo, director of CAFOD partner, CESEP [CAFOD]

Renato Peres

Renato Peres carrying one of the youngest marchers, Eliane, on his shoulders. [Sue Branford]

Lusiana

Lusiana and 120 other families gained rights to land from the government after the original owner was convicted of fraud. [Sue Branford]

Brasil families welsh

Ym Mrasil, mae miliynau o deuluoedd gwledig heb dir ac yn newynu oherwydd na allant dyfu bwyd. [Paul Smith]

Cedemir

Cedemir spent two years living in a camp before gaining rights to the land. Now he lives in a settlement with 375 other families. They grow their own food and are gradually converting to organic farming. [Sue Branford]

Construction worker at night school

Severino Jovino de Lima learns literacy skills at makeshift classes held at his workplace [Marcella Haddad]

Macuxi boy with cattle

Indigenous people's rights are being undermined and ignored by the rich and powerful [CAFOD]

Construction worker at night school

Construction worker Severino Jovino de Lima in a class run on the construction site on which he works [Marcella Haddad]

monument to Raposa Serra do Sol

The indigenous territory of Raposa Terra do Sol was granted legal status in 2005. This monument marks the event. [CAFOD]

Shoe factory worker

Worker in shoe factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil. [Marcella Haddad]

Awa Guaja literacy class

Awa Guaja literacy class. Such classes help preserve and strengthen indigenous culture [CAFOD]

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View of the church inside the Vila Prudente shanty town in Sao Paulo [CAFOD]

Rondonia dam

Large infrastructure projects such as this 100km-long dam in Rondonia are contributing to deforestation of the rainforest [CAFOD]

Rural families are landless and hungry

In Brazil, millions of rural families are landless and hungry because they cannot grow food [Paul Smith]

Burned down hospital

Burned down hospital in Raposa Serra do Sol [Davison Buckley]

Bresil familles rurales

Au Brésil, des millions de familles rurales sont sans terre et affamées parce qu’elles ne peuvent pas produire de quoi manger. [Paul Smith]

Logging in the Amazon

Some attacks on indigenous people in the Amazon have been linked to illegal logging. [CAFOD]

Brasil familias

No Brasil, milhões de famílias de trabalhadores rurais não tem terra e passam fome porquê não têm como produzir seu alimento. [Paul Smith]

davi yanomami and chris bain

Davi Yanomami and CAFOD director, Chris Bain [Joelle Hernandez]

Brasik familias

En Brasil, millones de familias rurales sufren de hambre porque no poseen tierra para cultivar y por lo tanto no pueden producir comida. [Paul Smith]

Davi Kopenawa, president of CAFOD partner, Hutukara

Davi Kopenawa, president of CAFOD partner, Hutukara [Joelle Hernandez/CAFOD]

Lucas paints his house

Ten-year-old Lucas paints his house for Christmas in Maria Cursia shanty town, Brazil - a community supported by CAFOD partner Movimento de Defensa do Favela (MDF)

Dom Cappio pilgrimage

Pilgrimage in support of Dom Cappio. [CAFOD]

Tony Sheen with fellow Smiths fan Janaina Cristina da Silva

CAFOD Westminster's Tony Sheen with fellow Smiths fan Janaina Cristina da Silva, who is employed by CAFOD partner APOIO working in a night shelter for the homeless in Sao Paulo [CAFOD]

Dionito de Sousa of CIR

Dionito de Sousa of CIR [CAFOD]

Tony Sheen helps load up the truck with large barrels of fuel

Tony Sheen helps load up the truck with large barrels of fuel, ready for a long road trip down the Amazon [CAFOD]

Bishop dom Luiz Cappio

Bishop dom Luiz Cappio [CAFOD]

Remains of the Sumara school and church mission

The remains of the Sumara school and church mission burned down during a violent attack by thugs determined to get the Macuxi people's land [CAFOD]

Maria de Lourdes Carneiro

Maria de Lourdes Carneiro prepares food at home in Sao Lourenco, Brazil [Marcella Haddad]

Macuxi children in Maturuca

Macuxi children in Maturuca [CAFOD]

Lobbying parliament

CAFOD's Anne-Marie Hanlon (centre), Tony Sheen (right) and Simon Giarchi (left) showing their solidarity to the cause of Jacir (centre right) and Pierlângela and their people from Raposa Serra do Sol [Joelle Hernandez/CAFOD]

Tony Sheen and Tuxaua chief Ivaldo in Maturuca

Tony Sheen and Tuxaua chief Ivaldo in Maturuca [CAFOD]

Pope Benedict XVI with Jacir from CIR

Pope Benedict XVI with Jacir José de Souza from CAFOD partner CIR (Indigenous Council of Roraima) [Fotografiafelici/Survival]

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Man and child at the Santissima Trindade Parish weighing programme in Brazil. Infants and children are weighed on a monthly basis as part of the CAFOD-funded Pastoral Children's programme [Marcella Haddad]

Jacir José de Souza

Jacir José de Souza is one of the founding members of CAFOD partner CIR (the Indigenous Council of Roraima), an organisation representing indigenous communities in the state of Roraima [Joelle Hernandez/CAFOD]

Woman with seedlings in Brazil

Maria do Socorro Sousa de Aquino works in a community kitchen garden in São Lourenço, Brazil [Marcella Haddad]

Joênia Batista de Carvalho

Joênia Batista de Carvalho, the first ever indigenous person allowed to submit arguments to the Brazilian Supreme Court [TV Justiça]

Tony Sheen with some schoolchildren in Brazil

Tony Sheen with some schoolchildren in Brazil [CAFOD]

Hutukara Yanomami Association

The annual assembly of the Hutukara Yanomami Association (HAY) [Luciano Padrão/CAFOD]

Aleque feeding his pigs

Aleque feeding his pigs [Marcella Haddad]

Father Henri and Maria

Father Henri de Roziers (left) has been working in Brazil for 30 years defending the rights of the landless as part of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), a CAFOD partner

APOIO occupation

APOIO in São Paulo supported participants in the occupation of this disused textile factory [Marcella Haddad]

Taisa playing

Taisa playing with children at the encampment [Marcella Haddad]

Ivanete

Ivanete de Araújo, co-ordinates three local groups for APOIO which helps 2000 people find housing each year in São Paulo. [Marcella Haddad]

Boy running through favela

In Brazil's richest city, São Paulo, more than two million people live in shanty towns, or favelas [Maria Luiza M Carvalho]

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Healthworker Sueli Torres mixes a health-boosting combination of ingredients called "multimix" that is handed out free to malnourised children in Sau Paulo [Marcella Haddad]

Regivaldo Pereira da Silva

After being stranded in the Amazon rainforest for six months by a labour contractor, Regivaldo Pereira da Silva went to claim his wages. He was accused of being a thief and thrown in jail. CAFOD partner CPT helped bring his case to court. [Sue Branford]

House with pool

Beautiful house with a swimming pool in Brazil [Maria Luiza M Carvalho]

North East Centre for Popular Medicine

[Marcella Haddad]

Bridge dwellings

Dwellings beneath a bridge in São Paulo [Marcella Haddad]

CPT

[Marcella Haddad]

Maira Jaira

Maria Jaira Coelho Rodrigues de Andrade is a community facilitator for APOIO [Marcella Haddad]

Fernando de Paiva Gomes

Fernando de Paiva Gomes, labour lawyer [Sue Branford]

Vanilda Ana Placido

Vanilda Ana Plácido looking out of her new home - a space in a corner of a disused textile warehouse in the centre of São Paulo. [Marcella Haddad]

Favela resident

Marinei Rosa Silva lives in a two-bedroom shack in a São Paulo favela with six of her children and three grandchildren. [Marcella Haddad]

Nete with APOIO group

Ivanete de Araújo (Nete) with families being threatened with eviction [Marcella Haddad]

Herb in pot

Brazil's North East Centre for Popular Medicine promotes community kitchen gardens and cultivates natural herbal medicines [Marcella Haddad]

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Construction worker Severino de Lima, 26, is learning how to read and write to improve his chances of earning a decent wage [Marcella Haddad]

São Paulo skyline

São Paulo skyline [Sam Goddard]

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Rosilda dos Santos has been able to set up her own small shop with the proceeds of a CAFOD-supported vegetable garden [Marcella Haddad]

Father Henri Burin des Roziers

Father Henri Burin des Roziers (right) works for CAFOD partner organisation CPT, the Pastoral Land Commission of the Brazilian Catholic Church - he is pictured with his bodyguard [Sue Branford]

Man in doorway

Jerônimo Odilon da Silva, outside his home in a CAFOD-supported settlement in north-east Brazil, hopes that the Lula government will tackle poverty and inequality [Marcella Haddad]

the MST march

12,000 members of the MST march 127 miles from Goiania to Brasilia to highlight the slow pace of promised land reforms by the country's government [Sue Branford]

Farmer Jerônimo Odilon da Silva

Jerônimo Odilon da Silva with yams grown on the land upon which he and his wife have legally settled [Marcella Haddad]