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During the last months several friends that live on the streets showed parts of their daily realities. The following post and several others that are going to be written soon, are transcriptions of the time we spent together. The used names are not the real names of the people (if not stated otherwise) in order to protect their privacy.

N. is a friend that I met the first time in July, by coincidence, when I met with a former street resident that spend some time with me and showed and explained how the life on the streets functions. N. doesn’t live on the streets (he said that he stayed only one month on the streets, back in the 80ties) but normally spends its time with the people at Praça de Sé and other central areas such as Praça Ouvidor Pacheco E Silva.

He defines itself as a kind of ‘informal streetworker’ that always talks and discuss with the people from the streets and tries to (re)establish their self confidence, tries to give them back the feeling that they are humans as well or just listens to what they have want to say because one of the sad realities is that the streets population is nearly invisible in the eyes of the always running citizens, although their presence is massive, especially in central areas, but also throughout the city of São Paulo.

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the same bridge, above and below

o mesmo viaduto, acima e abaixo