Santa Quiteria, Ceara. A social worker visits a family in the rural area of Ceara to monitoring to the state of health of the children of the family which were hospitalized in several times to attend they cases of extreme malnutrition.

Santa Quiteria Ceara. In Brazil 41% of the children between 6 and 24 months are malnourished, consequences of the chronic malnutrition many children suffer cerebral damage.

Santa Quiteria, Ceara. Official studies show that more than 32 million people live under the line of poverty in Brazil, this means more than the population of Canada. 45% of this population are concentrated on the Northeast region.

Matriz da Luz is a small village in Sao Lourenco da Mata, state of Pernambuco, Brazil. In the Northeast is common see families with more than seven children or even more. Most of they depend on a salary of R$50, like 14 us dollars at month.

The problem of malnutrition in infants is more severe in the state of Pernambuco.

Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. In Brazil 41% of the children between 6 and 24 months are malnourished, consequences of the chronic malnutrition many children suffer cerebral damage. The problem of malnutrition in infants is more severe in the state of Pernambuco. IPREDE is a NGO with 24 years of work against the childlike malnutrition in the Regions of the Northeast of Brazil.

Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. A victim of sexual violence shows her favorite doll to the camera. Center Dom Helder Chamber of Social Studies - CENDHEC is an NGO with headquarters in the city of Recife, they work offering legal-social service to children and adolescents of groups excluded socially to guarantee its social legal protection in the cases where have situation of sexual violence.

A small girl plays in the streets of a favela not know the problems that surround it

Casa Renascer is an NGO with headquarters in the city of Natal, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. It's priority are the social control about the public politics of promotion of the rights of infants and adolescents as well like guarantee its social legal protection in the cases where have situation of sexual violence.

Casa Renascer is an NGO with headquarters in the city of Natal, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. It's priority are the social control about the public politics of promotion of the rights of infants and adolescents as well like guarantee its social legal protection in the cases where have situation of sexual violence.

12 million of children work at last 40 hours per week and 57% of this children don't receive any form of payment for they work. Many families "adopt" underage girls, exploiting them as domestic laborers, they use to suffer countless abuses that are rarely punished because of a society that routinely turns blind eye.