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Gui Christ

Rejane Santos (right) started the Adopt a Day-Maid program to help unemployed domestic workers in Paraisópolis.

Almeida has breakfast with her husband Adriano Silva before she leaves for her job. One of her three adult children lives with them, and Almeida is the family’s sole breadwinner.

Maria Raimunda Ribeiro de Almeida walks up the steep hills of her favela, Paraisópolis, to meet the Uber her employer orders for her to lower her chances of contracting the coronavirus.

Unemployed domestic worker Ailde de Oliveira Dourado hangs her family’s clothes out in the alley. She lost her job as a cleaner because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Dourado cooks lunch for her kids, Arthur and Camila, in their home in Paraisópolis. Five-year-old Arthur developed breathing problems after a new staircase blocked the only window in their home.