ANS β Freetown β A few months ago, an urban bus from Badajoz Extremadura was sent to Freetown Sierra Leone to cooperate in one of the projects for the minors at risk of exclusion living on the streets of the city. The first objective is to save prostitutes who are minors. This is one of the stories of "a forgotten childhood girl". The Ebola virus killed my mother and many of my relatives, "said Fatimata, a year-old girl. She speaks in a low voice and is surrounded by wandering friends.
All of them are street girls, none older than 19 years old. They live in Grafton, on the outskirts of Freetown, half an hour from the city. We are poor and, if we do not go out to the streets, we do not eat," she says. Fatimata and her 6 friends Miatta - 13, Aisha - 14, Mabinty - 16, Afama - 16 and Isatu Comte - 17, Bangura - 19 answer some questions: where they work, how much they are paid.
Middle class. We do not like what we do, but, as we said, we have to eat and live. They say that they have received all kinds of threats and beatings. All "have left school a while ago, forced to work in the street.
We'd like to come back, but Come, eat, and talk to us. You can bring your friends, "Fr. Crisafulli tells them. Will there be any problems when they do not go out on the street at night and come instead to the bus? They are the young girls of forgotten childhoods, girls who, perhaps with the bus, can look once again to the future with some illusion.
Source: El Periodico Extremadura. Sierra Leone - Kids from a forgotten childhood and a bus that will help them look to the future. Men do not want us to. According to statistics, there are currently about minors in prostitution in Freetown.
