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What happened
Children living on the streets in Kinshasa, including children abandoned after accusations of witchcraft (“enfants sorciers”), face heightened vulnerability to trafficking and exploitation. Traffickers exploit vulnerable children in domestic servitude, forced begging, street vending and sex trafficking; criminal actors have also brought children to the capital, drugged them and forced them to beg. Accused: Criminal networks, individual traffickers and other exploiters targeting homeless and disadvantaged children.
Response and intervention
DRC Ministry of Social Affairs. Limited enforcement; shelters overwhelmed. Not For Sale and local church partners.