While numbers have declined over the past ten years in Mexico City, kids who live and work on the streets are still a problem

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While their numbers have declined over the last ten years in Mexico City, children who live and work on the streets of Mexico City are still a major social problem. In the southern part of the city under an expressway overpass, a squalid camp is home to some 25 children, adolescents and young adults who have decided to make the streets their home. Most are addicted to some type of cheap solvent and are constantly inhaling from a rag or tissue paper, impregnated with the liquid, that they carry balled up in their fist.

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Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Photo credit: © Keith Dannemiller / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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