It seems fitting. In her continuing series on child labor, editorial writer S.L. Bachman went looking for solutions.
Brazil is South America's largest, richest and most heavily populated country.
With a land mass larger than the continental United States, Brazil exports everything from shoes to orange juice to the U.S., its largest market. In urban areas where 76 percent of the population lives, bustling city cores are surrounded by huge favelas, slums where hope is as hard to find as a flush toilet. In the countryside, millions of workers have no land, farm at subsistence levels or work as day laborers. Countries that work with the ILO adopt national strategies to tackle the worst forms of child labor. But, say many Brazilians, until three years ago inflation of more than 7,000 percent a year robbed attention and energy from almost everything else.