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9. Erlen, 14, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This is perhaps the saddest one of the lot, 14-year-old Erlen lives in Favela in Rio, Brazil. She is pregnant for the third time. She does not have a personal bedroom, she sleeps on the floor. However, her mother swapped places with her and allowed her to sleep on the bed during the later stages of pregnancy. She lost both her babies shortly after their births. If her new baby survives, she will be a single parent and will have to drop out of school.
10. Bilal, 6, Wadi Abu Hindi, The West Bank
Little Bilal’s family are Bedouin Arabs who live in a one-room shack they built themselves beside an Israeli settlement at Wadi Abu Hindi in the West Bank. Bilal does not go to school but he helps take care of his family’s 15 goats.
