ESTHER YANDAKWA, KINSHASA, DRC: ESTHER YANDAKWA, KINSHASA, DRC

ESTHER YANDAKWA, KINSHASA, DRC
Esther Yandakwa, a 13-year old street child collapses after smoking marijuana with a friend where she stays on the streets of Kinshasa, DRC. She has lived on the streets since she was 6-7 years old and is dependent on prostitution to survive. She uses drugs and lives with a group of other homeless people in central Kinshasa. Thousands of children live on the streets of Kinshasa. Esther has been in and out orphanages or but she is only happy living in the mean streets of Kinshasa.