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When we think of street kids, gangsters,

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outsiders, we probably think first of young men,
but there are just as many women whose talents

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and energies are often wasted, living on
the edge as we found in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Bisayo, Onyinye and Gift are area girls

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in Lagos Nigeria.

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Area boys well they play rough and
dirty though some do make it good.

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But what is an area girl? Something
cool or just to girl without a job?

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And in a difficult world,
can they make it good too?

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There is evidence everywhere
if you know where to look.

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In the commercial capital
of the oil rich Nigeria,

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Ajegunle is one of the poorest
and toughest neighborhoods

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like many big city slums still struggling
to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

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Neighborhoods here are called areas
and some girls are called Area girls

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including Onyinye.

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My name is Onyinye. My friends have this
funny name, they call me, \"SHENKES\".

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Umm… I’m an area girl

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for now. And well, I’m not an area
girl because I choose to, that’s.

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An area girl, you can’t
actually classify into

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one… person, different ways.
You have some girls,

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the area girls, not because they do
anything, that because they are just rough

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and just rough and tough, they like trouble,
they like, you know, anything trouble.

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Anywhere there’s trouble, they like to
be there, they like the Bottle, Knife

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and the… they just love it. It’s not like
anything, we just love that kind of life.

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Onyinye lives the right side of the law

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but knows the streets slang runs

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or paid errands and meeting up.
And some people like me

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umm… it’s due to one of two things that, you know,
you go through you have to do some odd… odd things,

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you know, do one or two runs and

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that’s what is called actually to meet up.

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You have those out still, you know, to meet up, we have
those (inaudible) metals to meet up, it’s different.

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Family, you know, face it
alone, one definition.

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Onyinye left school at
12, no qualifications.

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What she does have, \"brothers and sisters.\"

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I have umm… 10 siblings
all together (inaudible)

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from the same mom, but from different dads.

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My growing up wasn’t nice, it wasn’t nice.

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We stayed with our step dad actually

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because my mom is married again. My mom has to carry
almost all the responsibilities alone, school fees,

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feeding, clothing and all that,

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so I’m growing up, and I can’t just be depending on my
mom for almost everything when I know she doesn’t have.

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Onyinye as we’ll see, has dreams.

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But right now, realities
are a little different.

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So, I (inaudible) or the other too, you know,
supporter because my younger ones are growing too.

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This area that I stay,
it’s… it’s kind of common,

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it’s almost what we do here.
We… we… you know, we date men.

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So it’s practically what I do, for now.
That’s what I do for now.

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My sisters,

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my family, they know about it, they
know everything about me actually.

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So it’s not like the (inaudible) but I have to
do it because I don’t want any of them to do it.

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So it’s like I have taken it upon myself,

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you know, to help because I won’t allow them,
you know, do what I do ‘cause if I can carry it

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I… maybe they can’t, maybe they are not
strong enough, you know, to live with it.

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I try as much as possible to satisfy
their basic needs, their needs,

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they wants their needs not what they want,
what they need, you know, I need this.

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Satisfying her family’s needs doesn’t make Onyinye
an area girl but it is what some area girls do.

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So is she an area girl?

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Her grateful siblings are undecided.

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Area girl sometimes stays
on the area (inaudible),

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kind of, you know, the environment
and maybe your… your background

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and mistakes and your parents kind of like

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It depends… …rough ones
(inaudible) the cool headed ones.

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She’s (inaudible), she’s
very intelligent, outspoken.

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I can’t call her an area
girl, an area, and somehow

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I know because she’s too
strong, very naughty,

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she’s very ambitious, she’s very
stubborn too. She talks about

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modeling, modeling, modeling (inaudible)

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It affects my life I think it
only affects my self esteem

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that’s why I’m looking for something I could,
you know, engage myself with that’s legits

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and responsible that I could
do, to help my family.

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Instead of relying on boyfriends
Onyinye wants to work.

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I’ve always wanted to model,

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I… I think I have talent to towards it and I can do it.
You know, I sometimes in my house we try to cat walk.

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[music]

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The streets round here

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part of cat walk too but a
different kind of cat walk.

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When you are your house, you can
be free and, you know, do whatever

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but when you are on the streets, you know, you have to give them
this mean impression like you’re scared ‘cause if you act like,

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you know, on… you act like warm botty,

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they’ll climb you. When I’m
outside, I don’t smile,

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I don’t talk to people like that. Except
those that are really, really close to me.

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And also keep this (inaudible) face, nobody can just
come talk to you and just go away. You have to keep

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this face, you have to be politely too (inaudible)
maybe if you are not familiar with someone,

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you try to play, you know, hard because the
other person will be playing hard too.

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You know, so it’s almost
the way we do around here.

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I head out to the coffee, where
I do most of my research,

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you know, (inaudible)
don’t go for this place.

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Onyinye’s off to the
neighborhood cyber cafe.

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Some are looking for jobs, some
are looking for the training

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and self help courses that
are run off around here.

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Onyinye is looking for a modeling agency.

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I search for modeling agencies, search and
send emails so they reply my email, then I go.

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And if I get the phone numbers, I call.

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This is where hung out at night. And it’s
kind of very quite ‘cause it’s morning,

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I know most people don’t
call in the morning.

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Umm… You know, Wednesday nights,
this people be coming out.

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Some judge, but for area
girls choices are limited.

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In the day time, day time, nothing
happens, most people wouldn’t do anything,

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maybe they’ll sleep or watch TV or
just sit in the house doing nothing.

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But around here in the evening,
always it’s very rowdy,

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people around are like, life like
partying all this kind of stuff.

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[music]

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(inaudible) sets the tone
for area girls, area boys.

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The area boys, they come out in the
evenings, that’s when they come out,

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that’s when they pick their pockets, that’s when they have the chance to
do whatsoever because you can’t pick pockets and just (inaudible) it.

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And in the evening, they have the chance
to, you know, smoke the (inaudible),

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you know, without attention.
If you’re nice to them,

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you are free with them. They can be nice with
you. If you’re, let me use the word lawyer,

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if you’re a lawyer, you may see them, you greet them
well, if they need something, you do it for them,

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you know, just was, you know, getting along with them, they treat you well.
But if you’re not careful, if you get into the wrong hands, they’ll beat you.

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They’ll beat you very well.

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We are always there for them as they as
they can come close and they convince you,

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we’re fine, we’ll do for them.

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[non-English narration]

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So all area girls are under
the sway of area boys,

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well, not quite. Meet Bisayo,
an area girl who’s graduated,

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not come (inaudible), not to be a CEO,

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this natural born leaders become.
Onyinye’s area mother.

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We have an area mother. Definitely an area
mother has to be somebody that, you know,.

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I like that very strong who have
the experience on people around.

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You don’t have to step on somebody’s toes if I get into trouble, somebody
can just see you and pick trouble with you and then they were looking for

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how to get to you. So, when I found
myself in such, you know, situations

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I was like looking, let me get closer to the this person,
let me get closer to her, maybe she needs errands,

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I run errands for her and with her.
You know, this kind of stuff

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so whenever I find myself in such… I
call her then she settles it for me.

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Protection, she’ll stand in front of you.

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Bisayo will settle arguments, win games could have
been a diplomat. Instead, she’s an area mother.

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Bisayo When you be area mama for
your house or for your (inaudible),

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people go respects you. And
they’re gonna respect…

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Best… best. What marks Bisayo (inaudible)
here. She says, she’s literally graduated.

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I study history international
relation, a diplomat.

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Fine, I come from a (inaudible).
So my parents assisted me

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to this school for the fact
that I just want to be

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an area girl, I see myself as this time in my area. Do you feel me?
I protect my territory, maybe here I should see any outsiders.

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[sil.]

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You might meet some people
who are hotter than you do,

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they might combat you and overcome you,

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maybe you are not strong maybe kind of
boys you think you are hope you know that.

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When then the cops come
to us, arrest us all,

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they are gonna to… she
is the one that is gonna

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to protect us, came to the cell to be lost and
everything . She does all the protecting me.

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Around here work is often
what happens at night.

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Daytime, for area mother and friends,
well, there’s always games of chance.

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I love playing \"Ludo\" because it gives
me more life. Whenever have problem.

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When I’m, when I’m thinking I
use Ludo to stop thinking.

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Sometimes we do bet with
money when we need to bet.

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I don’t need to bet right now
because my boy is broke.

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If not Ludo, there is lotto, the lottery.

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Let me take you to where I play my Ludo. It can be a
last resort for many who can’t find a full time job.

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When I (inaudible) I sat for
a job, I couldn’t get one.

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So I play Ludo to meet my daily needs.
I win, I don’t win is okay by me.

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This guy play \"baba ijebu\" lotto.

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So guy, play me 22-14
which is my (inaudible).

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When play you a (inaudible)
you found five kids

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you play with 10, 10
naira, you realize 7,500

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you can just imagine what that can or realize in
an office within a month. I can only get it here.

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Oh, this is the right place
for me to cool money.

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I dominate my daily
(inaudible), I calm things,

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and I make things happen in terms
of social life, I’m always there.

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Bisayo is the leader,

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the kind you might want in the boardroom, today
she’s greeted as a hero in the medicinal bar.

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Yeah, man. Ah, well, this is
where I make my happy day.

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This is my \"shepe joint.\"
And these are my guys.

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This why where I enjoy my life.

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All my life shepe.

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And this is…

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[non-English narration]

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Everyone is welcome, you get everything

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Even palm-wine for life. Yeah, this one

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for malaria. If you take this one

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you will never see. This one you know.

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This is for diarrhoea.

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If you have a problem you should talk. You see
this one, they call it washdown, washdown.

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Take this one and you’ll be alright.

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[non-English narration]

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Give there… give there two, two shots.

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There shouts to mama.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Everything goes on my fingertip.

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Because if I tell them to do
something, they’ll do it. So with that

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I believe I’ll be respected in this
society and I can become a leader

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in the future. My destiny
is to help the society.

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Bisayo is an area girl who’s
risen to area mother,

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but this is a neighborhood with
girls of many talents and values.

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So can a hard working girl with no more
modest ambitions been an area girl too.

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[music]

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Gift only went to primary school

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today she’s buying you ingredients for the Acara
or bean cake she sells. Work worth having.

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My name is Gift, in this
area I am an area girl

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but I don’t care what people think.
I don’t get involved with others.

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From my understanding what makes
me an area girl is the way I live.

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I don’t have time for trouble but if you want
to find my trouble, I’ll give it to you.

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And I’m gentle around here, but I’m not like that’s on the other
side if you don’t look for my trouble ‘cause I’ll give it back.

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What makes me happy and if they
stop, someone would recognize me.

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So it helps. Sometimes it doesn’t
help because of the area you go to.

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If you’re not strong don’t be an area girl

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because it can lead to death. A crowd could gather
can gather say you offend can cause trouble

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ask Mama you want to help. There
to live your friend that people

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because they see our struggle.
They could wound you or kill you.

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So this kind of life I
would like to change.

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Even a trip to the market may not be safe

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the truth is you have to be
an area girl to survive.

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I’ve seen plenty of boundary around my kids

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and if he kicks off I don’t
like to stand around and watch

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if you ex was going on they could stab you.
I don’t need those kind of things again.

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It doesn’t come my way and I avoid it.

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[music]

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Gift’s got attitude that’s not
an option but she’s also doing

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a long hard day’s work. I’m
giving this to my mom.

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I’m just back form the market

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with the things I want to cook.

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I’m the one that brings in the money for the family. I help
my family, I used to hock walking around selling stuff

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but I don’t want to meet boys because they’ll
say, \"come sleep with me.\" I don’t need that,

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and if you don’t do what they say,
sometimes, I’ll go to the market

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that for. (inaudible) come back after 8:00. They’ll
(inaudible) rape case, all those kind of things,

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that’s why I stopped talking. I
found a place to save my Akara(ph).

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This area girl is working a 16 hour day

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to help make money for her family
and she’s running her family too.

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I go to the market, buy
everything, come back

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and cook my food. I go out anywhere (inaudible).
My sister (inaudible) everything to the shop.

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I need them, they’ll start to do my
business. My sisters work with me

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and my mother help sometimes. Blessy,

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what are you doing? Come on, get
inside your room. You’re acting up,

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fast. Go behind me, hurry up!

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Those are my two sisters. This big one is
the last one and the other one is second

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to last. They’re too stubborn, that’s
why shout at them, they don’t listen.

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[music]

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Okay. I finished the work around 5:00.
I’ll come here at around 8:00,

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finished by 12:00, 01:00, 02:00 am.

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[music]

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You believe me, it’s noisy. Gift’s moved

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from selling goods from literally the
top of the head to the street corner.

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Now she wants to move on to the
next stage, her own store.

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Work (inaudible) motivator, finding a
boyfriend, an area boy with a difference.

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I go to find boy friend. (inaudible) of an area boy, I met him when
I was talking. And then it’s my man’s house. Come on, guys, fallin.

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I was talking, so boys surrounded me, they said, I always
ignore them when they called me. They wanted to beat me,

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I don’t know where you came from
or if you knew me, I don’t know.

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That’s how I met him, he helped me. That’s
how we got together. He’s my husband.

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[music]

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People might see her as an area girl but because she’s
my girlfriend, I wouldn’t call her an area girl.

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She can call herself that but I
won’t agree. I always say no.

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Area girls are not on the same level as area Boys.
That’s just the fact. We take ourselves as the guys

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when judge of everything, they
need help we assist them.

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Area boy is not good at all.

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But by God’s grace, I try to leave that past
life because I know that life favours me.

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That’s what I believe. What I do now is
I play football to try to help myself,

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maybe I will get one or two things from that
because the style of life we live is not good.

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Snatching someone’s bags.

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Doing all sorts of rubbish,
you know, they rape girls,

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they steal. I’ve got a conscience,
everyone knows this is a bad thing,

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but we can’t help ourselves
because that’s how we survive.

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So we do it, sometimes to help
ourselves, that’s just it.

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If I get the opportunity, I’ll use

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I learned form hockey. I go to the
markets where our both teams to hock.

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(inaudible). It depends on the area where you serve. If you see my
area here, the market doesn’t move like the place where I (inaudible).

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There’s nothing you can serve there.
I can’t be an area girl forever.

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If I see a chance, I will change,
just leave all those things.

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[music]

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It’s true area girls are
what some girls choose to be

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but most don’t want to remain forever.

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All area girls stay the right
side of the law, some don’t.

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All have the talent and
appetite for decent day’s work,

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one of the millennium development
goals which remains elusive.

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But, of course, paid work could
mean being an area girl no longer.

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The only thing you should know is that,

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it’s not funny, it’s not nice at all. Most
of us go through a lot of things in here

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that we are not part of. So if we’re given the
chance, the opportunity to change too, we’ll change.

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[music]