Airton de Holanda, family farmers benefited by the Eixão das Águas project in Ceará.
"It changed a lot. Before this channel, we brought in water from four, five miles away. We had no crops, nothing, now we do. We have vegetables —papaya, bananas, cassava, and so on. Using small pipes, gravity pulls water through the channel."
Camila Vicente micro businesswoman, owner of a snack bar next to one of the stations of the cable car at the Complexo do Alemão shantytown, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), where she is also a resident.
"They announced there would be a big project here and I began planning. I preferred to set up a shop, there was a possibility that I could stay at home and be able to work. Many foreigners come here, many from outside ... now I'm investing in myself and studying English, to be able to grow."
Rosimeire Gomes, health worker and resident of Ananindeua (PA), a mother of a boy who studies in the nursery built with PAC resources in the city.
"I can feel pretty safe because I've had problems before with a nanny for my other son, and I can say now that I can leave my child safely and come pick him up later in the afternoon and go to work unworriedly."
Maria do Socorro Teixeira, a resident of the Vila do Mar (CE) housing project.
"It's better than there because where I lived was in a hazardous area and when winter began, a high tide hit my wall. It knocked my entire wall down."
Dalva Gomes Alves, an official at the Jirau Hydroelectric Plant (RO).
"Today, I've got my own home. I bought two plots of land and built my house."
Claubenisa de Lima, an industrial mechanic at the Jirau Hydroelectric Plant (RO) project, obtained his first formal job.
"I was not even here one month, and when I saw my first salary check, I said, 'Wow, I sure don't want to leave here!'
Alexandre Lima Batista, about his home adapted for people with disabilities, built and delivered by the My House, My Life project in the Residencial Viver Melhor project in Manaus (AM).
"Where I lived, there was no ramp, and when I built one, it broke. You arrive, you have a way to get in, and how to get out ... I can go from one room to the other, the bathroom is large, and I can say that this house is mine. "
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