US President Barack Obama was photographed red-handed as he watched a 17-year-old Brazilian girl during the G-8 summit.
She is Brazilian, from Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, and is only 17 years old, but she came to the global press as "the woman Barack Obama turned his head for" during the G-8 meeting in Aquila, Italy.
In a moment of deconcentration, Barack Obama was photographed looking towards the back of the young Mayra Rodrigues Tavares, a representative of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), under the amused approving gaze of French President Nicolás Sarkozy.
Born and raised in Barro Vermelho, a poor community in Urucânia, in the West Zone of Rio, Mayara embarked for Italy on 07/03. Anxious, she told O Globo newspaper at the time that she did not expect to be chosen to represent Brazil and Unicef in one of the most important meetings in the world.
Mayara was chosen after participating in the Urban Centers Platform -an investigation carried out by Unicef on the real rights of children and adolescents around the world-. In Rio, the study was carried out in communities of Santa Cruz, in Complexo do Alemão and in Morro Chapéu Mangueira, Leme.
Mayara is part of a group that disseminates the rights of children and adolescents with the aim of guaranteeing a decent life for young people who live in disadvantaged communities. Her ambition is to study Social Assistance to continue helping her community and others. Meanwhile, she is the young woman Obama turned his head for.
