Crack – The Dark Heart of Rio
The path of many crack consumers is marked by poverty, violence and all sort of difficulties. Even with the work of some social groups as some evangelical churches, local volunteers and government actions, that provide some useful help to diminish this extreme life condition. To interfere in this life context, is required urgent and powerful adoptions of policies of reinsertion of this people into public services like health public care, sewage disposal, labor market and others. This dark side on the heart of Rio de Janeiro still is going on day and night on the streets of the city.
A shadow of a pastor is seen on the wall as he prays to the crack's addicts on a sidewalk in Jacarezinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 9, 2014. The evangelical church Amor de Deus maintains a program for recuperation of drug addiction, most of all crack addiction, in Del Castilho neighborhood, nearby the pacified Jacarezinho slum, north zone of the city. Photo Leo Correa
Mauro, alleged 20 years old, left, wearing a jersey of the german soccer team Borussia Dortmund, receives a plate of soup in a corner of the street with others crack's addicts, in Jacarezinho slum as people of the CRAD - Centro de Recuperação Amor de Deus - that reads in Portuguese, God's Love Recuperation Center, give some food to them, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 9, 2014. Despite this shantytown had been pacified in 2012, street people still on this favela due the traffick of the drug. Photo Leo Correa
A man smokes crack as a woman reacts next to him on the street of Jacarezinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 9, 2014. The evangelical church Amor de Deus maintains a program for recuperation of drug addiction, most of all crack addiction, in Del Castilho neighborhood, nearby the pacified Jacarezinho slum, north zone of the city. Photo Leo Correa
A woman smokes crack on the street at the Jacarezinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 9, 2014. The evangelical church Amor de Deus maintains a program for recuperation of drug addiction, most of all crack addiction, in Del Castilho neighborhood, nearby the pacified Jacarezinho slum, north zone of the city. Photo Leo Correa
A crack's addict woman dances on a street of Jacarezinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 9, 2014. The evangelical church Amor de Deus maintains a program for recuperation of drug addiction, most of all crack addiction, in Del Castilho neighborhood, nearby the pacified Jacarezinho slum, north zone of the city. Photo Leo Correa
Robson Leal Lemos, 34, right, former drug trafficker gives assistance to a pastor as they pray a man alleged crack's addict at the Jacarezinho slum during a work with the people of the CRAD - Centro de Recuperação Amor de Deus - that reads in Portuguese, God's Love Recuperation Center, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 9, 2014. Despite this shantytown had been pacified in 2012, homeless still wandering in favelas due the traffick of the drug. Photo Leo Correa
Men have dinner in one of the rooms on the rooftop of the CRAD - Centro de Recuperação Amor de Deus - that reads in Portuguese, God's Love Recuperation Center, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 9, 2014. The evangelical church maintains a program for recuperation of drug addiction, most of all crack addiction, in Del Castilho neighborhood, nearby the pacified Jacarezinho slum, north zone of the city. Photo Leo Correa
Men pray on the rooftop of the CRAD - Centro de Recuperação Amor de Deus - that reads in Portuguese, God's Love Recuperation Center, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 9, 2014. The evangelical church maintains a program for recuperation of drug addiction, most of all crack addiction, in Del Castilho neighborhood, nearby the pacified Jacarezinho slum, north zone of the city. Photo Leo Correa
People watch the circus artists of the group Coletivo na Esquina in a small court in the Complexo do Alemão slum complex, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 10, 2014. The group have a mix of french and brazilian artists. Artistic projects, art intervention organized in the slums has shown itself not just as an entertainment show, but also as a alternative to avoid the drugs and what is related with it. Photo Leo Correa
View from the cable car of the Complexo do Alemão slum complex, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 10, 2014. Artistic projects, art intervention organized in the slums has shown itself not just as an entertainment show, but also as a alternative to avoid the drugs and what is related with it. Photo Leo Correa
A rainbow arches cross the sky near a place where people prepare and smoke crack under a footbridge, in a slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 26, 2013, Others drug addicts stay all day and night consuming all sort of drugs. Photo Leo Correa
People make line to buy drugs in a slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 26, 2013. Armed traffickers sell drugs and control the access and permanency of men and women who are drug addict in this "favela". Photo Leo Correa
People make line to buy drugs in a slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 26, 2013. Armed traffickers sell drugs and control the access and permanency of men and women who are drug addict in this "favela". Photo Leo Correa
A man smokes a crack pipe under a footbridge, in a slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 26, 2013. Photo Leo Correa
An unidentified man tries to prepare and use rest of crack under a footbridge, in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 26, 2013. By his side sleeps his girlfriend that is also drug addict. Photo Leo Correa
An unidentified man shows a crack pipe under a footbridge, in a slum Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 26, 2013. Photo Leo Correa
A man offers a crack pipe after prepared it to smoke under a footbridge, in a slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 26, 2013. Photo Leo Correa
A woman, also known as blond aunt, prepares the crack to smoke in a plastic cup, under a footbridge, in a slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 26, 2013, Where others drug addicts stay all day and night consuming all sort of drugs. Photo Leo Correa
A woman, also known as blond aunt, smokes crack under a footbridge, in a slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 26, 2013, Where others drug addicts stay all day and night consuming all sort of drugs. Photo Leo Correa
Vangela Melo da Silva, 32-year-old, is addict in crack. She smokes the drug under a footbridge in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 26, 2013, where others drug addicts stay all day and night consuming all sort of drugs. Addict for at least three years, Vangela, expends her money that she earns with house cleaning and prostitution. She is also know by the name Priscila and lives in a slum of Rio sharing a poor house with another woman. Her three children live in another city. Her husband was a drug dealer and died after have been arrested for robery. She says that she wants to stops to use drugs and start a simple life selling cookies on the streets. Photo Leo Correa
Drug addicts use an open area to consume drugs and, above all, this is the place where women earn some money in exchange for sex, in a slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - February 26, 2013. Photo Leo Correa