Ten women have been leading the most underprivileged community of São Paulo city, the Downtown Homeless Movement, formed by thousands of people who formerly lived on the street, in squares or under bridges and overpasses. Like an army without shelter, they founded the Homeless Movement not only as a way to struggle for the right to housing, but to restore their own dignity, unraveled by lack of care and social segregation.

Here, Jomarina, one of the most important coordinator of the Prestes Maia occupation, cooking in an improvised kitchen at the encampment.

São Paulo, Brasil

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