Sao Paulo, BrazilPamela dos Santos Pereira, a 33-year-old mother of six children, stands in the doorway of her home holding her one-month-old child Joao, flanked by Debora, 4, and Issac, 6, in Brasiliândia, one of Sao Paulo’s poorest neighbourhoods. Thirty-three million Brazilians were going hungry according to a study by several nonprofit organisations ahead of the general elections
Photograph: Víctor R Caivano/AP