They sing, they dance and they live in community. They still have something that we have lost
Claire Watkins
Brazil’s favela slums are no place to grow up; they are full of wretched poverty, disease and violence. They can steal a young person’s childhood. But the Christians of Curitiba want to give some of the region’s most troubled favela kids their childhoods back.
Mission Direct gives ordinary people the chance to do extraordinary things around the world. In two weeks you will change the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. You can help to build a house, classroom or clinic. We discover people and groups doing remarkable things in their own countries. Then we provide them the people and resources that they need. We do this by enabling people like you, with two or more weeks to join our life-altering trips.

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Crime and disease are rife – it can be a frightening, hopeless existence. This is a
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