The children at the orphanage who are ages eleven to seventeen are about to leave and enter the world. They made photos about hope and wrote about them.

folio de Livro:
the itinerant library. This is the parade that happens when it travels from neighborhood to neighborhood.

When I asked him when his child was born he hesitated and withdrew from what had been a fairly calm and fluid conversation. There was a moment of discomfort until his wife appeared with the smiling baby in her arms. Large, curious eyes, gurgling, wearing a purple headband and pink sandals. Attention was diverted to her. “She is six months old,” he said. “I returned from cutting sugar cane a few weeks ago and I am just starting to get to know her. You know, the work is heavy and the food is awful but the hardest thing is being away from my family.”