Tarcisio: The result was a devastating combination.
Tarcisio: Drug addiction, violence, human exploitation, closed businesses, residents living in fear.
In one of São Paulo's most beautiful postcards, the city center was being taken over by neglect.
Tarcisio: I always knew that it was not enough to push the problem from one street to another.
Tarcisio: It was necessary to shelter those who needed treatment, to know them by name, to learn the history of those who lived here for years, victims of those traffickers.