The Street Children of Brazil: One Woman's Remarkable Story

by Sarah De Carvalho and Decarva

This book?reveals why?the author left a?high-paid career in film promotion and television production to join a missionary organization in Brazil, where she saw young children living rough, taking drugs, and engaging in prostitution for survival.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340641649
• ISBN13: 9780340641644
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.4" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!

I have read this book twice now. It both inspires and challenges me. The way that God breaks into Sarah's life and turns it upside down is remarkable. One minute a succesful woman in TV, the next in a foreign country living in a favela (shanty town/slum). Amazing!I find the book inspiring in the way that God changes her life and causes her to become a servant to the kids, by just loving and caring for them. The way the book challenges me is in how I realise that we (myself included) can so easily read a book like this a do nothing more than feel sympathy for the kids and think of Sarah as a hero, when there are millions of children living on the streets around the world with no one to love or care for them. I thank God for people like Sarah & Joao, I just wish there were more of them to do what they do!I would highly recommend this book.

The Best Book I have read!

In September, I will be moving to Brazil to begin my new career, working with the street children of Sao Paulo. This is the best and most captivating text that I have read on street children. It is not technical, so someone simply interested in finding out more about the hardships that the street children suffer; violence, abandonment, drugs, abuse, etc. would benefit from reading this text. It is an easy read and quick read. I reccomend it often!