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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Will the World Cup Help Brazil's Slums? [Watch (HLS stream): Will the World Cup Help Brazil's Slums?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/QyjUrZJi.m3u8) (2:48)  _Published 2014-06-16. Residents of Brazil's slums are unlikely to benefit from the money generated by the World Cup._ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:50 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Fires Are Ravaging Brazil's Pantanal, the World's Largest Tropical Wetlands](/video/G82M8RX9/) ### Fires Are Ravaging Brazil's Pantanal, the World's Largest Tropical Wetlands [How to Stay in Brazil During the World Cup for Cheap](/video/4RFozZT9/) ### How to Stay in Brazil During the World Cup for Cheap [ESPN: 2014 World Cup live from Brazil](/video/I2PyyreE/) ### ESPN: 2014 World Cup live from Brazil --- ## Transcript Life in Jacarasigno has change little over the years. Today the streets may be decorated in green and yellow, but the routine, the burden, the quality of life remains the same. No one knows it better than Valeria. This mother of three has lived here for more than 25 years. And from her window, she has yet to witness real change. [ FOREIGN ] Valeria is just saying to me that I asked her what the problems that she faces here in Jacarezinho. She says that they don't have hospitals, children wake up early to go to school. They get to school and there are no classes. And to add to all of this. The water, the water right by the bank of the river here. It gets completely inundated and she says she has to change a lot of the house, the furniture pretty much every year. That's a lot of money spent, just here in Jacarezinho. Despite the complaints reported to me, that more than 100, 000 people here have settled into a harsher reality. Becoming almost numb to their precarious conditions. It's a reality that Pastor Antonio [ UNKNOWN ] finds difficult to accept. For years, he's been fighting for their cause. Recently his cries have grown louder as Brazil throws more money to hosting the World Cup. See my country from, from this place. shockingly, because we are the seventieth economy in the world, but at the same time we permit people living in this condition. Yeah. Without a sewage system, children without access to good education, people dying in the line of the hospitals. Okay is a, place where people are invisible. It's easy to understand why the people here of Jacarezinho, just feel so hard done by. And why they're so apprehensive, about the World Cup. Many tell me that the money, they have contributed to the World Cup, and the gains that may come from it will not go to the people that really need it. Is the people right here, who are the poorest slums in Latin America. The stains of poverty are hard to ignore here. Children and adults alike cross the stretch of wasteland everyday. Fearing for their health and their safety as the trains pass them at speed. Antonia, we've heard so much about an economic boom in Brazil. Have you seen any difference in the last five years or so to the people here of Jacarezinho? There is a real difference and we should be just. People are not any more dying by starvation, but people continue to live without dignity. 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