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Some of Rio's poorest people live in the Mangueira favelas with no sanitation and little education or healthcare. 

Maracana stadium, less than 750m away from slum, has had $500 million investment to get it up to Olympic speed.  

Favela residents have raw sewage seeping through their homes, have to queue up for meals and use hose to wash Around 1.4 million people, about 22 percent of Rio's population, live in crime and gang-ridden slums like Mangueira

Just yards away from the Maracana stadium, pictured, that has had more than $500 million spent on it in the past two years, some of the poorest people in Brazil are living in absolute poverty.

People gather in the mostly demolished Metro-Mangueira 'favela' community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Maracana stadium will stage both the opening and closing ceremonies for the Olympics in August, the 'favela' residents will be dealing with raw sewage running through their homes.

Around 1.4 million residents, or approximately 22 percent of Rio's population, reside in 'favelas' which often lack proper sanitation, health care, education and security due to gang and police violence.

A man enters his makeshift apartment in the mostly demolished Metro-Mangueira slum.

Living in dark, dank conditions - a stark contrast to the scenes just yards away - a young resident stands outside his Mangueira home.

Residents wait to receive meals donated by the Mangueira samba school outside an occupied building in the Mangueira.

Students walk home from school, with Maracana stadium in the background. It will host the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

People gather as a shopkeeper looks on in the streets of the slum, where crime rates are high and health provision is low.

Residents clean and burn trash uncollected by the government that has failed to deliver on promises to improve the area.

In the 'favelas' no more than 750m away from the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, which will host the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, young families are living in makeshift houses with no sanitation.

Children play in the street while a baby is pushed along in front of a litter-laced occupied building as a dog searches for scraps.

The Morar Carioca plan to urbanize Rio's 'favelas', or unplanned settlements, by 2020, was one key social legacy project heralded ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, but it has not yet materialized.

There have been 2,083 murders in Rio state in the first five months of this year, up 14 percent on the same period last year.

Despite the well documented crime rates fueled by poverty, Brazilian ministers have insisted all is well, as clothes are hung out in yard.

A mother (second left) stands in her bare, dank and dark apartment with very little basic facilities after the children return from school.

With little or no running water, residents use a hose for water to wash in the mostly demolished Metro-Mangueira 'favela'.

A woman walks past an occupied building in the Mangueira 'favela' community. The building along with one next door houses hundreds of residents who must collect water from hoses.

Inside one of the basic favela homes - crumbling floors, dirty and stained walls and broken furniture as a boy plays football and another youngster raids the bare fridge.

Residents gather around a small fire on a cold evening in the mostly demolished Metro-Mangueira.

Last month, a gang of about 20 armed men shot their way into a central Rio hospital to rescue a detained boss nicknamed Fat Family, as two youngsters play around jugs of water collected by families.

Rio will be welcoming hundreds of thousands of foreigners from more than 200 countries for the Olympics which start in August.

Mother Rina Antonietta Silveira Sampaio prepares to cook in her apartment as her daughter Ana Beatriz (lower left) looks on.

A man enters his home, with graffiti in Portuguese - the spoken language in Brazil - reading 'We Are Human Beings'.

As the terror threat looms, Brazil's intelligence service said it had detected Portuguese-language messages linked to the Islamic State group on an online forum in June.

Amid an ugly national recession, nearly bankrupt Rio de Janeiro state has required a 2.9 billion reai ($870 million) federal bailout to avoid what interim governor Francisco Dornelles warns could be 'a big failure'.

Well-paid work is scarce in the slums, and on the edge of the community, a man plies his trade by repairing a tire.

Rio police have seen more than 50 of their colleagues killed just this year and have been protesting against late salary payments, but football, as ever in Brazil, provides some respite.

Shop owner Ejilda Sousa poses in her storefront in the slums ahead of an influx of hundreds of thousands of people for the Olympics .

Mother Vanilda poses with her two-year-old daughter Sophia in the 'favela'. They will be hoping the government backs up its promises.

The traditional Ala das Baianas poses at a traditional feijoada party held by the Mangueira samba school, one of the most famous in Rio, with a tear in her eye.