For Richer, for Poorer - Brazil on BBC
For Richer, for Poorer Life is broadcast on BBC World six times a week, starting at 19.30GMT on Wednesdays. For full transmission times, click here . Favela Coliseu in Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo is Brazil’s biggest city and the business hub of the country. Nestling between the sky scrapers are the favelas or urban slums housing the poor. Life went to the favela Coliseu, in the heart of one of the richest parts of Sao Paolo. It epitomizes a stark fact that has come to characterise Brazil today. The gulf between the rich and the poor is one of the biggest in the world. Almost half the country’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of just twenty thousand families – and that’s out of a population 184 million. What separates the poor families living in this favela from their millionaire neighbours, is a concrete wall. It’s covered in paintings by Zezinho, one of the residents. “This is our Brazilian version of the Berlin W...