Are there many Christian mission groups working in Brazil and doing the same activities as Hope Unlimited?
Smith: There are many folks that have an interest in working with these street kids and there are a lot of missionaries working with the kids in the streets. I do not know of any large scale programs that are providing residential care and vocational training for street kids. I express that clearly as a challenge because we would love to find out those whom we could come alongside and learn from. CP: Is it hard working with street children, especially from another culture? Smith: It is enormously difficult. Probably the street children in Brazil would be more like children in the United State in terms of their hardness. The more developed cultures just make different characteristics come forward. In Ethiopia, because it is very much a developing society where family is so highly valued, in times of starvation the family would die and give the children the last morsel of food and the children actually grew up with hope. Sometimes that hope was the only thing that kept them alive. In Bra
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