Hello, I'm David Baker, and thank you for downloading this podcast.

I've spent a lot of time in Brazil, and I've always been painfully aware of the number of people who live rough in its bustling cities.

Last year I was in Salvador in the northeast of the country

and I was reading a book about people just like this. It was written 80 years ago, but somehow it felt

just as relevant now.

So for this episode of assignment,

I went back to Salvador to find out more about that book

and about the lives of the people on the city streets.

Well, we've come back into the square now it's dusk and there's probably about 50 or 60 people here there are obviously people who live on the streets.

White cars just pulled up and there's boxes of pizza being pulled out of the back of the boot and everybody's pushing through the traffic running towards where this guy's handing out some pizza. We've been surrounded by kids here.

There's kids here.

They're grabbing the pizza boxes.

The little girl who's got a box under her arm and she's got some food.

Get in there in there. And she's got her box under her arm and she's got her boxes full of

chicken nuggets actually in amongst her toys here she's also got a ball and a whistle

what's it's you're? She's 10 years old here. She's 10 years old here.

She's not here.

She says she's not here.

She says she's here because it's shameful to steal but it's not shameful to ask for food and here you can come and ask for food

He's saying he lives here on the streets

He's itoano he's itoano moorano no he's oito moorano streets. He's I to Anu Morandin

up. O Ito I want to one.

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