It is expected that the map will be ready by the end of April. A booklet prepared by the coordinators of the project comments that just as a process of ethnical discrimination happened in South Africa which separated the different races, in Sao Paulo the discrimination is economic. This process should be understood as an exclusion, that is as an impossibility to participate. This provokes privation, rejection, abandonment and expulsion even by violent means for a significant part of the population. At a recent meeting of the coordinators of the project, the Archbishop of Sao Paulo, Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns singled out the unemployed and those who live on the streets as being amongst the most severely excluded.
Unemployment depersonalizes people.
Just as the person who lives on the street wanders about without an identity, without clothes and friendship, the unemployed wanders through life without a fixed purpose, without orientation and abandoned. As is his custom every Ash Wednesday, Cardinal Arns of Sao Paulo begins the Lenten Campaign by holding a news conference with the press. Then he went on to remember that those holding high offices give themselves raises in pay. In his press conference, the Cardinal re-iterated the fact that the extreme poverty level in Brazil has risen to 32 million people and that it is the greatest shame in modern history that Brazil does not allow its people to live in dignity. Soon after these comments were made by Cardinal Arns, President Cardoso objected to the criticisms of Dom Paulo.