BBC Africa Eye focuses on the horrors of the lives of sex workers in the West African state.
Isata, a single mother in her early twenties, epitomises the horrors of the lives of sex workers in Sierra Leone.
BBC Africa Eye spent four years following the lives of a group of sex workers in Makeni, about 200km from the capital Freetown. “All the sacrifices I’m making, I do it for my daughter. I have been through so much pain on the streets,” she said. One of the young women, Mabinty, told us this was where they worked side by side - seeing up to 10 men a night.She is trying to make enough money to support her children. She had six, but three died.“One child has just sat his exams. I don’t have money to pay for him to go to school, unless I sell sex. These are my sufferings,” she said.
She gave up sex work but, when we saw her in 2021, she was struggling to make enough money to take care of her daughter, by cooking in a local kitchen.
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