La Rocinha has recently become an official neighbourhood of Rio de Jainero, with 200.000 inhabitants. It is the biggest and most developed favela of all South America. Year after year La Rocinha has become a neuralgic center for drug dealing and arms smuggling and it is a real hell of mitres, cocaine, armed groups and illegal gambling places. In a place where tension and violence are part of ordinary life, an italian woman, Barbara Olivi, has founded ONLUS “Il sorriso dei miei bimbi” a non profit association which aim is taking care of the “ninos de rua “ by giving them a nursery school and all the security and protection they need. (More) ...