Real lives Jorge da Silva works at a car park on one of the beaches in Rio. He used to worry about his 10-year old son Valter because he only went to school in the mornings. This is common in Brazil where there are too many children to fit into the schools. Boys like Valter often hang around the streets where they can be targeted by gangs and become involved in drugs or violence. Young boys are often used as lookouts and they fly kites to show the gangs where people are. Now Valter goes to the community centre to do sport and extra tuition. This helps his education and keeps him off the streets. "The street is not a nice environment," says Rosineri, Valter's mother. "He gets extra tuition at the centre and his school teacher says he's studying much better and is more obedient now." "We want to show the community and the local authorities that it is possible, with just a little money, to transform the reality of student's lives," explained Cleonice, one of the workers at the centre.