Justice

Letting Brazil's Homeless Speak for Themselves

Social media projects in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo illuminate the lives of the homeless in Brazil's biggest cities—without value judgments.
José Carlos, 27Rio invisível

RIO DE JANEIRO—

This is how José Carlos, a 27-year-old who lives on the street in Rio de Janeiro, begins his story. It's one of dozens that a project called Rio invisível (Invisible Rio) has been publishing on Facebook to offer a glimpse of life through the eyes of the homeless in Brazil.