Many of these children claim to suffer even more at the hands of the police.
After five years of homelessness, John is an expert at making his bed: he lays a piece of cardboard on a stretch of cement, wraps a large bag around himself and attempts to sleep. The bags he relies on for warmth – which are plastic, or the types used for rice and sugar – are collected from dustbins in Mbale, a town in eastern Uganda. If he’s lucky, a kindly market trader might donate one.
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