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Bruke, 15 yrs emerging from the hole that he calls home in the middle of the main street of the Merkato market in Addis Ababa. He has lived on the streets for 5 yrs. An approximate 80,000 street children live in the capital. Many of the children end up on the street because they have escaped from indentured slavery, lured to Addis from the countryside with the promise of education and employment, in reality, they become part of the human trafficking circuit