Photograph: Salgado, Sebastiao. Photograph. "Migrations: Humanity in Transition [Leaving the Land for the Cities]." Legends Online. PDN and Kodak Professional, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2010.
These babies are left, playing on the roof of FEBEM (a foundation for child welfare). About 450 lived there and about 35% of those that live there, were abandoned, left on streets, or their parents dropped them off because they could no longer take care of them. This foundation is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Recently, the FEBEM is now a place that houses juvenile boys and girls. Some define it as a "child concentration camp." There are about 900 adolescents which is very overcrowded for the location of the foundation(Lakatos). I'm sure the kids staying there aren't treated very well. There isn't much information about this foundation and an article said that no one really knows what goes on in there.
One part of the article about Brazil's child torture centers, including FEBEM, talked about some of their torture methods. The most common was locking the kids in a closet for hours only in their underwear. Another is suffocation because it doesn't leave marks. I can't imagine living in a place, abandoned, and being tortured when half the time, it's not the kid's fault for being there in that situation. Unfortunately, it would take a lot of money to even start trying to fix this problem.
Salgado, Sebastiao. Photograph. "Migrations: Humanity in Transition [Leaving the Land for the Cities]." Legends Online. PDN and Kodak Professional, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2010.
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