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Brazilian nomads after being hit by pandemic

Sao Paulo, May 10 (EFE).- (Camera: Wallace Carvalho).- A couple of vans, a school bus and a motor home occupy a street near one of the busiest subway stops in Sao Paulo. Inside it, there are Brazilian "nomads", people who lost everything in the 2015 crisis and were forced to turn their vehicles into homes. FOOTAGE FROM THE LIFE OF NOMADS IN SAO PAULOSOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS OF: Geraldo Pereira Gomes, 60 years old "We live here, then there, then there. We have to go when things don't go well. Sometimes there are neighbors who don't want us around, so we leave" "I was walking the streets pushing a cart, I worked with recycling. But it was no longer working, so I decided to buy this red kombi and I thought: now everything will be fine, I will live in it, because it is closed 'and I felt safer "My situation in this kombi is not good, but I see many people who live on the sidewalk, who are suffering with the cold, in the rain, and I feel sorry for them. (...) I see so much suffering and I think not I'm so bad " Joao Andrade Correia "I have already suffered and I still suffer a lot of humiliation, because this city of Sao Paulo is a controversial city. There is a lot of prejudice, racism and selfishness" "People stigmatize you, many throw things at dogs, provoke, insult. That is the attitude of many, they treat you as if you were their property, as if their life were their property, As if I had to listen to them. to kill that old man "and they kill like this, the few" Gilmar braz "With the motorhome we have a roof, it is warmer, the children are more protected and I can go to work a little calmer, without living on the streets, as before" "At first we could rent a house, it was just me, my wife and a son. Over time the family increased" and "suddenly either I paid the rent or fed my children", "It was when I had to buy a store and we went to live in a plaza ... Little by little I was working, saving a little until I was finally able to buy a truck, then an old bus and, finally, the motorhome" "We already have a space for each of us to sleep, we have the kitchen, where we can make a meal. But we still don't have a bathroom, we have to use the bathroom at the (subway) terminal and the children shower at the house of a friend, Dona Regina "