Ilheu quarter and the Malvinas quarter are two problematic quarters in Camara dos Lobos,at Madeira Island.
There,the so called social houses with low rents ,have a huge concentration of people by house.
Is normal a T4 have 18 or more persons living inside.
Fishing is the main activity for the olders,when there is no work,they stay drinking and gambling around.
The women take care of the house and numerous children they give birth as God wants.
The children,once called the box children,cause till 1988 they runned all Funchal with a shoe box asking money,do what they want to give home some money each night.
If not they know the parents will beat them.
Easy lambs to predators.
Now those children do what they can:
Indicate places to put your car in exchange of a coin,selling paper saints,begging money and......some of them enter the pedophilia ring.
As they did all those years,starring porn movies,having sex with foreigners,etc...etc.
In 2004 was tradition,each boy and girl bring home 10 euros a day.
The rest they caught,spend it in drugs,clothes,ice creams and all the stuff children usually like.
Anyhow,things are changing.
Police try to catch pedophiles and sometimes one or another is judged.
At same time they and the Association Fight Against Poverty reaches to help those little children.
But the problem is ,that is not enough.
The social security and all those involved in save those children need to work at night,out of offices,in the place where things happen.
But this is a impossible mission.
In Malvinas quarter and old woman try to put in order some kids.
She had 15 children and has now 90 grandchildren.
In her house,a T4 lives 23 persons,13 little children.
Having a baby at 14 is normal and a joy to family,cause her mother and grandmother did the same.
All this above was took from this site:
and is based in an article wrote by ANA CRISTINA PEREIRA.
