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Happy Birthday Sandra
Gregory John Smith

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NOTE DE REDACTEUR Other images of Sandra and her children can be seen here

My adopted daughter and former street kid, Sandra, enjoying the role of the mother whom she never thought she could be. This photo was taken on her nineteenth birthday, only a few hours before the birth of her second son, Gregory Jnr. Her first born son, Patrick, seems quite content with her expected birthday present. ******* "Life After the Streets" The small black & white image is of my adopted daughter Sandra surrounded by other street kids, sitting on a bench on the famous Praça da Sé (the Cathedral Plaza) in the centre of São Paulo, Brazil. Back in 1993 this was a popular hang-out for the city's many street children and also where I started my preliminary work recuperating the first street children through my organization's Hummingbird Project. Sandra was one of those kids at the time. The Plaza has since been redesigned and "cleansed" of the problem by continuous police actions against the street children. In the picture Sandra was miserable, angry and tired of waiting for her sister, who did not run back to the streets with her from our recuperation centre. Kids would often run back to the streets during the first months of recuperation, addicted as they all were to drugs and streetlife. Accustomed to being together on the streets, Sandra hated having to spend time alone without her sister, but the wait lasted for six months when she was eventually allowed to come back to the centre, never to run away again. Since then she has grown up together with her two brothers and sister in my own foster home and is now a married mother with three children. Early motherhood has deep roots in Brazilian society, especially in underprivileged communities. We are talking about a country where 32.000 girls under the age of 14 give birth each year. Drastic numbers and ones that help contribute towards a constant stream of kids lost to the streets. The second small image Sandra & Patrick is of Sandra ten years later, together with her first-born son, Patrick, who is now 4 years old. Luckily for Sandra, her husband has a fixed job and can support the family, but the situation is delicate for many young mothers in poorer Brazilian communities, where sudden loss of jobs, husbands or income can play havoc on family life, with little or no social support system for mothers and their children. Sandra had never expected to become a mother after her years on the streets and after her first-born decided she would not have any more kids. Unfortunately contraceptive practices offered by a failing health system have left her with two more children to fend for. At the age of 20 she is already talking about operating against further pregnancies.

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Thanks Anshuman for engaging us in some of these questions. I too hope that others will share stories.

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