LUSAKA - We take drugs to keep away the cold, 13-year-old street child Susan has said.

Susan who lives along Lusaka's Nkwazi Road said drugs were the only solution to the hardship she and her colleagues who live on the street faced.

She narrates that she came to Lusaka from Kitwe after the death of her parents three years ago.

"I ran away from home where I lived with my grandmother in Kitwe three years ago to come to Lusaka with my friends, but I want to go back now," she said.

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