He did not leave money to pay for gas to cook meals or for electricity to light the shack where she lives on the city's edge. The photos were shot in Sorocaba, a city of more than 400,000, not far from Brazil's capital, Sao Paolo. It is called Children of Bethlehem, Carvalhaes says, as a reminder of another slaughter of innocents that people were too frightened to stop centuries ago. The killing of Bethlehem's children forced a man named Joseph to flee during the night with the infant Jesus to the safety of Egypt. Dentists work on the childrens' teeth, and psychologists help them talk about their feelings.
Social workers pay regular visits.
Volunteer gardeners grow the vegetables used to fill baskets that are delivered monthly to families with children in the program. The day-care's van picks up the children each morning just after dawn, when their mothers, who are most often domestic workers, leave for work. The van takes them home at dusk, when their mothers return from work. They suffer discrimination - for instance, their neighbors won't play with them. Community pressure has persuaded some local authorities to bar HIV-infected youngsters from attending public school.