The Little Girl and Her Tragic Life

EH (9) has already tasted the bitter side of life when she was abandoned by her mother on the streets, forcing her to rummage through trash to find food and exposing her to sexual harassment on several occasions.

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A boy looks out from a cart while a woman carries a toddler on Saturday (23/11/2019) in the Bintaro area of South Tangerang, Banten.

At nine years of age, EH has already tasted the bitter side of life when she was abandoned by her mother on the streets, forcing her to rummage through trash to find food and exposing her to sexual harassment on several occasions.

EH lives with her father. They are scavengers in Senen, Central Jakarta. They sleep in any place they can find to lie down: on floors, by the street or on benches at roadside food stalls. Before Senen, they lived around Manggarai in South Jakarta.