GIANLUCA UDA
Villa Parolin and the Bruna family

Bruna has five children, a husband who smokes crack, a house in wood and cardboard waste, she is Brazilian and lives in the city of Curitiba.
He lives almost in the center of the city, in a favela that many call Villa Parolin.
They call it Villa but there is very little in terms of elegance.
Parolin is the surname of an Italian immigrant who, towards the end of the nineteenth century, moved to Brazil in search of fortune, the favela takes its name, he was the first to build a colonial style house in what is now a of the most dangerous favelas of the city.
The shop, managed by second-hand narcotics traffickers, the open sewers and the violence make Parolin an almost inaccessible place.
Only residents can enter even if at night they too stay at home. Misery and abandonment are part of the fabric of the small community, where women are often the engine of everything.
Bruna tries to raise her children there, but it's not easy. The husband smokes crack and outside the walls there is only.
Bruna has five children, a husband who smokes crack, a house in wood and cardboard waste, she is Brazilian and lives in the city of Curitiba.
He lives almost in the center of the city, in a favela that many call Villa Parolin.
They call it Villa but there is very little in terms of elegance.
Parolin is the surname of an Italian immigrant who, towards the end of the nineteenth century, moved to Brazil in search of fortune, the favela takes its name, he was the first to build a colonial style house in what is now a of the most dangerous favelas of the city.
The shop, managed by second-hand narcotics traffickers, the open sewers and the violence make Parolin an almost inaccessible place.
Only residents can enter even if at night they too stay at home. Misery and abandonment are part of the fabric of the small community, where women are often the engine of everything.
Bruna tries to raise her children there, but it's not easy. The husband smokes crack and outside the walls there is only violence and degradation, the street kids crowd Parolin to buy cheap drugs.
The inhabitants of Parolin are almost five thousand, the majority of them are looking for a way to survive, but today with the new Bolsonaro policies it has become all the more difficult.
Bruna voted Bolsonaro with hope in a change that never happened, today she has to look after five children and a life that does not belong to her.

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