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Name	Marinete
Gender	female
Country of Origin	Brazil
Destination Country	Brazil

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s-1	I grew up in Pedra Corrida, Brazil, a miserable place.
s-2	As we were very poor and did not have enough food for everyone, my parents borrowed us to other people.
s-3	We would work in peoples houses in exchange for food.
s-4	Despite our efforts, four of my mothers 16 children died of hunger.
s-5	Once, my father sent my sister and me to a neighbour.
s-6	We had to clean his house while his wife was away.
s-7	He asked me to get something in the room, then he closed the door and told me to go to the bed.
s-8	I started to cry and scream.
s-9	I was only eight.
s-10	Fortunately, my sister and I managed to run away.
s-11	After that I did not talk to my father for 10 years.
s-12	Parents should protect their children and not put them in situations of risk.
s-13	Later on my auntie took my sisters Lena, 10, and Nezinha, 11, to work in Belo Horizonte.
s-14	For a whole year my mother did not hear anything from them.
s-15	She was always crying.
s-16	One day she sold a pig to get money to buy a train ticket to go there and look for them.
s-17	She made announcements on radio and newspaper.
s-18	First she found Lena, who had been working in a house of a family day and night just like a slave.
s-19	Later on she found Nezinha.
s-20	They had tried to force her to work in a brothel, but she ran away and was living on the streets.
s-21	Fortunately, we moved to São Paulo.
s-22	Here there was abundance.
s-23	Even when we had to beg on the streets in the beginning, we always had food.
s-24	Later on we found jobs and started to build a new life.
s-25	Now I work cleaning houses.
s-26	I have two daughters and one son and theyve never had to go through the same misery as me.
s-27	They have never been hungry and have never had to beg.
s-28	I am happy here.

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