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A Fairytale Night for Girls in Rio Slum
Dressed in long evening gowns, girls from Rio de Janeiro's Santa Marta favela celebrate a fairy-tale evening at a debutante ball sponsored by police.
A teenage girl from the Santa Marta "favela" slum puts on a pair of high heels for a debutante ball organized by the Pacifying Police Unit from her neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The ball, which relied on volunteers who coiffed and made up the girls and a formal wear shop that loaned the dresses, helped build goodwill between pacified favelas' residents and the officers who patrol them.Silvia Izquierdo / AP
