Graphic Online
BY: By Doreen Hammond
Category: General News
Maame Akua’s home at night. She wakes up at dawn and leaves the area before daylight because it is illegal to be there.
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Among the milling crowd near the rail lines at the CMB market in Accra sat 18-year-old Maame Akua Owusua.
She looked confused and in need of help to navigate herself out of the hardship she had knowingly or otherwise plunged herself.
In front of her were a few lemons she called her wares though the proceeds from the lemons she sells in traffic could not feed her and her two-year-old daughter, let alone pay her rent of GH¢15 a week.