BRAZILIAN YOUTH RESOURCES

ORGANIZATIONS

Global Youth Action Network
Offers a traveling seminar of Brazilian youth movements.

An inspiring organization that works with young adolescent girls and successfully sells rag dolls made by the girls to help support the organization's work.

Grupo Primevera

ARTICLES

Hollander, D. (2005) "For poor Brazilian males, sex tends to begin early and is often unprotected." (DIGESTS) : An article from: International Family Planning Perspectives: Alan Guttmacher Institute.  [HTML].

Logan, Sam. (16Sept03) "Impoverished Brazilian Youth Face Little Option but to Die Young," Americas Program. Silver City, NM: Interhemispheric Resource Center.

BOOKS

Sanders, Thomas Griffin. (1987) Brazilian street children. Universities Field Staff International reports. (Out of print.)

MOVIES

City of God (2002)
Powerful film on life in Brazilian slums amidst drugs and gang wars and the struggles of one young man to escape.

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