
Torn between two worlds: Children with homes choose streets
Limited access to education, healthcare, and social services leaves them exposed to exploitation and risk. AMONG the throngs of pedestrians in Harare’s bustling Julius Nyerere Way, 18-year-old Ayisha*, eight months pregnant, holds out a trembling hand, pleading for scraps. Her story is of inherited hardships, born on the same streets where her mother once begged….