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Folsom, CA (openPR) 26 September 2010

Life in the streets of the third-largest city in Brazil is anything but easy. Over 5 million people live in Belo Horizonte, and the impoverished masses living in the slums that surround the circumference of the city on a mountain slope. These communities are slums “favelas” called in Portuguese. Many children from the favelas of the liquidation of the work the streets to earn money to feed their families, and often to support the addiction of their parents. Most children who work in the streets day, you vote at all back.

Sidney Pereira da Silva e Souza was one of those children of the favelas. Only six years he has been forced to work alone in the streets to support his large family and her alcoholic father. Soon, he fled his abusive home in abandoned buildings, bus stops and on park benches to sleep, with Brazil estimated 1000000-8000000 other children on the street.

Sidney found a whole new world – a world run by children and supported by anyone. This new world embraced him wrapped in a pandemonium orchestrated cycle of criminals, junkies and corpses.

when Sidney was 11, he was in and of juvenile facilities. He was a drug addict, thief and gang member. He had escaped the gang wars, corrupt police and murderous vigilante squads. He had learned all the tactics for survival in the streets had to offer -. Survival strategies that were slowly killing him

Then one day he heard a group home through an international Christian organization, Youth With a Mission (YWAM) run. Known as “The House of rescue,” he was a two-week detoxification program for street children who wanted to leave the street. If they did it for two weeks without glue, paint thinner, alcohol or other drugs, and if they at least show a semblance of respect for rules and structure, they would then move to something longer term, “The House of Restoration.”

For most street children, it was just in a safe place where they could go from time to time for food, a shower and clean clothes. The majority of them never wanted to leave the false freedom were put on the road. Fortunately, the head of the house saw Rescue (a street child himself a former) escape the desire to live in the Sidney Street and offered him a room.

It was a difficult two weeks, but Sidney was in the house a restaurant where he was introduced to missionaries around the world. There he met the soon-to-wife of pro athlete Damon J. Smith be, who was visiting the house on a mission trip at short notice. By the time Sidney was seventeen years old and had been in the United States, Papua New Guinea and Singapore, he met with the missionaries traveled home. He spoke fluent English and earned degrees at the top of his high school class. She was so by the ambition of the young man she left him a copy of Smith Sport motivational book, Do not Stop the Swagger impressed: Preparation of the body, mind and soul for Peak Performance. Sidney finished the book, Smith contacted by e-mail and the two forged a friendship immediately.

“We contacted the beginning,” Smith said of his first contact with Sidney. “After writing my book on all those people who have overcome huge obstacles to achieve the goal of their life, here we have this child in a different part of the world that the term embodies face. It was like a living example of perseverance. It was a natural progression to go there and see what we could do to advance. “

Damon was not a stranger to help others to achieve their goals in life. After the transition from professional football in American companies, began Damon mentoring high school athletes on their way to college scholarships. He often spoke to youth groups, organizations, universities and business groups to express the motivating message and perseverance in his book Ethics.

the following year, Smith and her boyfriend went to Brazil twice a documentary on Sidney Street and other children at home JEM shoot. They kept close contact, and Sidney has his desire to inspire his life story street children worldwide and for those who do not understand the train to the vicious cycle of poverty in Latin America to write words.

About a year after she released the documentary, Smith received an email from a young man with a big rig. It was a manuscript of his life story, passionate in the English language that could compete with most American high school student wrote. Diary of a street child: reworded After a year of editing, writing, and re-edit the story of Sidney has a full brief, were saved to Tell.

as a young adult, Sidney travels the world with the inspection team that Damon and his fiancee in Belo Horizonte. With headquarters in Campinas, Brazil, the team travels regularly to South America, Africa, Europe and the United States, in service to the needy and lost, training teams of church outreach and education to new recruits, as daily life to serve a higher purpose to live another.

Now that the book is out, Damon and Sidney inspiration to the other. Sidney dream was to publish his story and travel the world. Damon and a dream of his own, who had a passion for a sport he has never had the chance to continue in his youth.

play the ball, Damon dreamed of moving the first person from the professional football motocross professional. The transition was difficult, but with all due care brand, the people of all ages and backgrounds can achieve anything they bring it proved. “Saved to tell,” months after the release of Damon has to assemble his professional motocross rider and tail of the best riders in the world.

Racing works drivers with sponsors in addition to their bikes and clothing, Damon followed with a goal to walk humbly unique referral from him. On both sides of the motorcycle in bold letters reads: “Do not Stop the Swagger” and secondly “to tell Saved.”

Damon J. Smith corporate houses, the media and the sporting performances of Damon J. Smith: Inspiring Minds Publications, the Damon J. Smith Radio Show, Fair and MX. He currently resides in Folsom, California and is used for lectures, interviews and consultation of sport is available.

Sidney Pereira da Silva e Souza is currently touring the U.S. and are available for interviews and speeches in the United States until December 2010.

To an interview with Damon and Sidney schedule, please contact Taryn Smith.

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