Mary* was only 8 years old when she was tragically sexually assaulted by a man from the slum community she lived in. She lived with her mother, who was single and the only caretaker of a home of six children. In order to find work that paid enough to put food on the table for her family, Mary’s mother had to travel great distances every day.
Feeling unsafe at home and without the money to attend school, Mary began working on the streets collecting scrap to sell.










