Rio Favelas

Italian Barbara Caroli, right, receives a telephone call at her office in the Rocinha slum, Rio de Janeiro, April 13,2007. Caroli caught her 'favela fever' after glimpsing the thousand points of light gleaming each night from the jumbles of hillside houses.'I felt it was an invitation,' said Caroli, who quit her job at a real estate agency in Milan, moved to Rocinha, married and opened a pre-school. 'This is life. There are shootouts, and sometimes you can't sleep because of the gunfire, but you almost never see a body. People don't celebrate death — they commemorate life.'