Maria Elisandra do Nascimento, 42. [Tell me the names of your children and their ages] There is Caique Nascimento Silva, Taina Nascimento Silva, Caroline Nascimento Santos, and Carlos Eduardo Nascimento Franca. The other one is eight, the girl is 22, he is three and she is four. I had this here, but I did my
I worked in a family’s house, it was reasonable. I came from Minas Gerais, when my mother went to live in Recreio. When I came to live there, my mother said I was only a year old, but I ended up staying there 53 years. I didn’t pay electricity or gas bills, I brought up
I lived in Restinga, on Avenida das Americas, for 12 years. It was a tiny little house, but it was very cosy and comfortable. When I went to live there, people were already saying that it would be removed, that this had been the talk for 30 years. Camila Duraes Grativol, 23, housewife We had
Luiz Claudio Silva, 53, physical education teacher, We’ve had 12 years of suffering with this mayor in Rio de Janeiro. There were lots of different reasons given. It was for aesthetic reasons, it was supposed to be parking, for the Olympics, then there was the idea that it denigrated the environment. Everything lives on in
Look, it was a community which I had lived in for 18 years. It was a community where I arrived and was welcomed, and I brought my daughter up there. Nobody messed with anyone else, everyone respected each other. I got started there, put my things there and no one messed with any of it.
My two grandchildren live here, with me and my wife. There are four of us. I don’t miss where I was. I moved from a worse place to somewhere better, I have nothing to miss from there. I really don’t miss it at all. My house was half the length of this room, from where
My previous address was Estrada de Curicica, 206. My name is Deis Aparecida Alves. I lived there with my granddaughter and my son, and afterwards he got together with a woman, and he divided his time between here and there. When I came here, there was no space anymore, as it’s small here. There, I
They arrived here all of a sudden, and said Yolanda, drink up your coffee as we are going to knock your house down now. I went to my daughter’s house to sleep. When I came back, it was gone. The house was in bits in the middle of the street. It was so fast. I
I have lived in Parque Carioca for a year, and I came to live here because of the Transolimpica road, which links Recreio to Deodoro. It was a very quick process, very “dynamic”, in quotes. City Hall came to take people out of there, with a deadline of two weeks, three for some families, in
