The economic realities of stark poverty are forcing children out of their homes onto Bolivia's city streets, reports ADRA Works, the quarterly publication of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, Silver Spring, Maryland. Drugs help them get through their dark days-or so they think.
Children sleep on the streets and steal to buy food.
They often turn to alcohol and drugs to ease their loneliness. Eventually a lady took him to an orphanage, but he ran away to live on the streets again. Prior to living on the streets, Enrique lived with his grandparents. He was physically abused by his grandmother and, after many beatings, ran away from home. I behaved badly so they would kick me out, but they didn't.