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The danger of the streets

ByFabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 03/26/2022: A young man who works with recyclable garbage gets tired while listening to a phone outside the favela of Maré, in the northern part of the city. Photo: Fabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 16/01/2022 : A man who works with recyclable garbage and lives on the streets shows the third degree burns he suffered while sleeping in the surroundings of the Mare slum, in the northern part of the city. Photo: Fabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 01/16/2022 : A woman looks through a rag during a city operation to remove homeless people living around viaducts and public roads, people are removed from the places where they do recycling work. Photo: Fabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 24/09/2022 : A woman who works collecting recyclable materials from the streets and from garbage discarded by households and businesses, in the Maré favela, located in the northern part of the city, uses a knife for protection. She has been sexually abused several times, suffers from racism and police violence, and the state, which is supposed to provide protection, is the most violent against recyclers and people living on the streets. Photo: Fabio Teixeira.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 16/10/2021: Street trash recyclers chatting outside the Maré favela in the northern part of the city. Photo: Fabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 08/12/2021 : Man shows injuries caused by being run over while collecting recyclable waste in the Mare slum, North Zone of the city. The driver of the car fled without assisting him. Photo: Fabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 06/03/2022 : A young man living on the streets was assaulted during a military police operation in Manguinhos, a slum in the northern part of the city. He works recycling garbage, violence against recyclers is daily, fear is everywhere. Photo: Fabio Teixeira

Workers who collect recyclable waste from the streets suffer from violence, sexual abuse, racism, diseases because of the waste, the government does little for these people, they are in a street situation and are discriminated against because of their color, because of their work, they don’t have the right to come and go.

Fabio Teixeira