 In 2006 she moved to Lauro de Freitas—a town near Salvador, Brazil—and continued performing.At the time of her move, she commented that she had suffered much adverse publicity in Portugal due to her Belgais Centre project to help tackle the significant problem of underprivileged children, a project that the Portuguese Government helped to fund but publicly shied away from.The centre continued to operate at her farm in Portugal and she subsequently started similar projects in Brazil.