![Nasreen in her vegetable garden, Pakistan. [Caritas]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/pakistan/images/nasreen/908662-1-eng-GB/nasreen_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![More than 700 campaigners rallied before delivering anti-poverty messages to every EU embassy in London [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/campaign_images/trade_justice_campaign_images/embassy_bus/199633-2-eng-GB/embassy_bus_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbours have harvested from outside the camp in Kubum, south Darfur [Paul Jeffery/ACT/Caritas]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/sudan/images/fatna-right-brings-home-wood/247664-2-eng-GB/fatna-right-brings-home-wood_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Niccollette and Shrirvanie film the aftermath of the Guyanan floods, with support from CAFOD partner Guyana Human Rights Association [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/what-we-do/communications/images/after-guyana-floods/679742-1-eng-GB/after-guyana-floods_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
Urban development in Brazil
![Marinei Rosa Silva lives in a temporary home in a São Paulo favela with six of her children and three grandchildren [Marcella Haddad]](/var/storage/images/media/cafod/images/latin_america_caribbean/brazil/favela_resident/6560-1-eng-GB/favela_resident_medium.jpg)
In São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, three million people live in shanty-towns or run-down tenements and more than 10,000 live on the streets.
CAFOD's partner APOIO (Portuguese for ‘support’) works with homeless people and tenement dwellers in São Paulo, helping them form housing associations and neighbourhood groups to lobby for better housing conditions and services. It also provides legal assistance to those threatened with eviction.
Marinei Rosa Silva, 41, is one of APOIO’s community workers and acts as a security guard for the organisation too.
Marinei lives in a two-bedroom shack in a favela – a shanty town – with six of her seven children and three grandchildren. With APOIO's help, she is now on a waiting list for accommodation due to be built by 2005.
“It’s difficult to imagine where I’d be now without APOIO. I am a fighter so I would probably be doing what I needed to do, but on my own, which is much harder. Having other people together really helps. And people are always there for advice.”
![More than three million people in Colombia have been forced to flee their homes during decades of fighting between guerrilla groups, paramilitaries and the army - the highest number of displaced people in the world after Sudan [CARITAS Colombia/CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/colombia/images/forced-to-flee-their-homes-/778622-1-eng-GB/forced-to-flee-their-homes-_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg) Support our partners in their struggle CAFOD has repeatedly asked the UK government to press the Colombian authorities to publicly defend human rights. Please support this call to action and the work of our partners in Colombia by emailing your MP now. YOU can make a difference |
![The CAFOD-funded National Federation of Fishworkers organises fishermen to defend their rights [Nithila Mariampillai/HUDEC]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/asia/sri_lanka/fisherman_throwing_net/2862-2-eng-GB/fisherman_throwing_net_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg)
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![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]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/brazil/images/tony-sheen-with-fellow-smiths-fan-janaina-cristina-da-silva/116989-4-eng-GB/tony-sheen-with-fellow-smiths-fan-janaina-cristina-da-silva_0column75_nospace_landscape.jpg)
