DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Young prostitutes eat a meal at the decaying Tata Raphael Stadium (where the famous 1974 Mohammed Ali - George Forman "Rumble In The Jungle" fight took place). Some 70 homeless youths live at the sports complex. The boys work at odd jobs during the day and the girls work as prostitutes for between $5 and $15 around the stadium and in town in order to survive. There are an estimated 30,000 children living in the streets of Kinshasa. Years of dictatorship and conflict have destroyed the social fabic of Congolese society..Kinshasa, DR Congo. 05/07/2006.Photo © J.B. Russell
