Son of Aristides Inácio of Silva and Eurídice Ferreira of Melo, when he/she was seven years of age old, Lula emigrated with
its mother and siblings, that lived then in
precarious conditions in the
district of Caetés, municipal district of Garanhuns, in the rural from Pernambuco, for the coast of the state of São Paulo, repeating the saga of millions of native of northeastern Brazil that you/they escape from the extreme poverty, accentuated mainly in the drought periods prolonged in the Northeast Area of Brazil. Lula traveled in a precarious transport, known popularly as stick-of-macaw. It passed, then, to reside in Vicente of Carvalho, district of the periphery of Guarujá, city of the coast of the state. In this same city from São Paulo, Luiz Inácio of Silva was alphabetized in the School Group Marcílio Dias. In 1956 it started to live at the Villa Carioca, in São Paulo. With twelve years Lula was used in a dry cleaner''s, having exercised the engraxate professions and office assistant later.