Ebola Orphans Taking Desperate Measures to Survive
Aid workers have warned that Ebola has created a generation of orphans forced into desperate measures to fend for themselves after the disease claimed their parents. A British-run charity says many of the thousands of children stricken by the virus have turned to crime and prostitution simply to care for their siblings.
The Street Child charity’s researchers, who surveyed every district in Sierra Leone, first documented the shocking extent...