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RIO – Eloisa Pinto Fontes’ wish for freedom was ultimately granted. After 22 days interned at the Philippe Pinel Municipal Institute, in Botafogo, in the South Zone of Rio, the 26-year-old model was discharged on Wednesday and returned with her mother, Luciene Pontes, to Piranhas, in the interior of Alagoas , her land. Christmas. The young woman, who was rescued in Morro do Cantagalo, on October 6, is still in the process of recovery. The difference is that, now, it will have the support of the mayor’s office of the Alagoas municipality and a state government project, called Anjos da Paz, which provides psychological and social assistance to drug addicts. There is a possibility that she will be hospitalized again, this time for a longer time.
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Eloisa will go through a team with a psychologist and a psychiatrist, who will evaluate her state and psychological situation. Contact with the project team was made directly by the Pinel Institute, which convened the Reception Center for Chemical Dependents in the municipality of Santana do Ipanema, in the Sertão de Alagoas, and articulated the arrival of the model. According to the Secretary of State for the Prevention of Violence in Los Angeles, the young woman can be referred to a host community, where she can undergo voluntary treatment for up to six months, and renewed for another six months, depending on the need.
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The model arrived in Paulo Afonso, a city near Pirañas, at the end of Friday afternoon, after a 39-hour bus trip. The costs were paid by a kitten made by friends, which raised R $ 1,600. With part of the value, around R $ 800, tickets were bought for the young woman and her mother. The rest was given to Luciene to pay for travel expenses and whatever they needed. The two were received by a driver from the Secretariat of Social Assistance together with the Superintendency of Human Rights of Pirañas and a technician from Anjos da Paz, there is a team ready to attend to any need that may arise.
– The recovery process can only be answered after the specialists assess Eloisa’s psychological state. But, also according to your wishes, you can already be sent to the Recovery Center in Santana do Ipanema, a partner in our municipality of Pirañas, where one of the Los Angeles de la Paz headquarters is located – says the social worker in the town of Piranhas, Renata Crispim.
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As hospitalization is voluntary, it will initially depend on a conversation with the young woman and her family. But this is the first time that the municipal and state governments have provided help to the young woman, who left the small town at 17, to be a model in São Paulo. For eight years, the 1.80m Alagoas was paraded during fashion weeks in Paris and Milan, requested by prominent designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Giambattista Valli. Then came jobs for Armani, Armani Exchange, Stella McCartney, Dior, and Dolce & Gabbana. He also made covers for renowned magazines such as “Elle”, “Grazia” and “Glamor”.
Angels of peace
The Anjos da Paz project is made up of psychologists and social workers and is one of the entry points for Rede Acolh, a program of the Government of Alagoas, through Seprev, which offers vacancies for drug addicts in one of the 33 therapeutic host communities in completely free. The Project has welcomed more than 30 thousand inhabitants of Alagoas since its creation in 2009.
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Wanted high
Eloisa anxiously awaited the release of Pinel’s hospital and she always made this clear in the calls she made to her tutor friend, Francisco Assis. On Wednesday, around 5 in the afternoon, and still under the effects of medication, the Alagoas saw their mother as soon as they left the room and gave her a big hug. I do not cry. His face was calm. Besides freedom, the only desire was to eat meat pies and drink sugar cane juice.
– Everything was already arranged with the hospital. His mother arrived, she was sad and upset about the whole situation. You know it inspires care. They hugged when Eloisa left. She was fine, calm. She said she was hungry and asked to eat meat pies and drink sugar cane juice, because she remembered that when we left her other hospital (in August), we took her there. But this time we went straight home, where we prepared dinner – says Assis.
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At her friend’s house, Eloísa ate fish, rice and potatoes, a dish prepared by her mother and bread made by her friend. After dinner, he fell asleep before the trip. Around 9:30 p.m., the model woke up and got dressed to go to Rodoviária Novo Rio, in the Central Zone, and board the bus at 11:30 p.m. But there was a delay of 1:30 am, and they boarded just at one in the morning on Thursday 29.
Assis hopes not to see Eloisa soon. The friend believes that her return to Rio de Janeiro could bring problems to the young woman’s life again. Since the woman from Alagoas is fluent in English and German, her friend hopes that she will get some work with these qualifications, even if she is outside the world of fashion.
– Now she will have the support of the Ministry of Social Assistance and Angels of Peace to help her in this recovery. They do an important and award-winning project in the country. I hope he never shows up in Rio again. From the heart. This is hell. If you are in Rio, the problem may have returned. I hope you recover, stay there and take care of yourself. He speaks good English and German, he could find a job using his knowledge – says Assis.
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