Source: BBC NewsPhoto: David Levene/EveryChild
Article: Genet's story: A life on the streets
*The following are excerpts from the aforementioned article:
~ Violence and sexual abuse within the home are among the main reasons children run away to live on the streets, according to a report, the State of the World's Street Children, published by a coalition of charities.
~In Ethiopia, an estimated 150,000 children live on the streets.
~I was forced to go to bed with the male relative who we had been sent to live with and a woman in the household frequently beat us both.
~After being beaten and verbally abused, I decided to take my chances on the streets.
~I was pretty sure that the man was also sexually abusing my 11-year-old sister too.
~I find it very difficult to talk about my time on the streets of Addis. I survived there as best I could for over two months. I was often very hungry.
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