Bruno Rafael Paiva is a teacher from Brazil who had spent two months living inside his school because he had yet to receive his salary. At the time, Bruno was covering for another teacher and friend who is on maternity leave. Given the fact that there is so much bureaucracy in Brazil, Bruno’s name had not yet been added to the pay roll.

“I’m covering the license of another friend, and the license has a huge bureaucracy of receiving a license, attaching to the system, sending documents of the new teacher, receiving documents, then creating and sending the teacher contract, signing a contract, attaching to the system, and to put the name of the teacher on the payroll of the month,” he said. “This enormous and lamentable bureaucracy is something that is in every system of our country.”

His students were horrified when they learned this, so they came together to raise $400 of their own money to give to their teacher.

“This cannot be. How can you do this?” Bruno said as he opened their gift.

He could not help but cry as his students surrounded him to give him a group hug.

“I have many rooms that I have loved in my heart to be a teacher, but no room has ever shown such love, help, and affection for my teacher’s work as Building #1 did today,” Bruno wrote on Facebook. “They are students like me, who still make me believe in the education of the country, believe in the love of others, in the compassion of putting oneself in the place of others, and believe mainly in the respect and love of the student towards the #Professor of his school.”

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