Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:33:15 +0000 …how teenager survives with baby on Lusaka streets By ANNIE ZULU MANY people see prostitution – the act of trading one’s body for money and other material things – as normal. In fact in most parts of the world, prostitution has been legalized. However when a child engages in it, it becomes a global discourse. Charity, 17, is one of the many children in Zambia who is living her life as a prostitute. Leaving Chongwe, her hometown, to search for greener pastures in Lusaka, all Charity was offered was the streets as a home and a baby to look after. “I don’t know the whereabouts of the father of my child, I have not seen him in a while,” she told me. Apparently, she had been abandoned by the man who impregnated her, the same man who deceived her that he loved her and had encouraged her into […]
