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Paloma Cristina Terra, 19, has a 6-month-old daughter named Maria Victoria and lives in a slum neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She dropped out of school in sixth grade and has never held a job. Her prospects would be bleak, except that she and her best friend have enrolled in Projeto Mao na Massa, or The Hands On Project, which trains and certifies women in construction jobs.
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Roseli da Costa Eusebio, a Cofix Industrial employee and graduate of The Mao na Massa project, embraces Norma Sa, the project coordinator, at a work site in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood in Rio De Janeiro.
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Fl‡via Paula dos Santos, a Cofix Industrial employee and graduate of The M‹o na Massa project poses for a portrait at a work site in in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday March 8, 2012. (Jill Knight/Penn State University/MCT)
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Flavia Paula dos Santos.
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Roseli da Costa Eusebio, a Cofix Industrial employee and graduate of the Hands on Project, poses for a portrait at a work site in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood in Rio De Janeiro.
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Roseli da Costa Eusebio.
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