Brazil
Although it's South Americas largest, most influential country and contains a wealth of natural resources, across Brazil there is a massive divide between the rich and poor. Conditions are harsh living in the big cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo where a third of the population lives in slums - or favalas - as they are known.
Working in partnership with three churches in favelas of Sao Paulo, Oasis is developing a number of community programmes to meet the desperate needs of the local people.