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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We have no food to eat and no place to sleep; we are just sleeping next to the road side or at verandas of shops or next to the hotel,\u201dMaob Mabior, 17, lamented the sorrowful life had to live in the streets of Juba circumstances forced him out his home in Rumbek.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been three years since the teenage who use to collect fares on a passenger taxi ferrying the Juba-Rumbek routebecame homeless after abandoned him without means of returning home.<\/p>\n

Three years later away from the care of his parents,Mabior had only known suffering and survival in the streets of Juba.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came to Juba with adriverwho promised to take care of me. However, when the vehicle we used for business got spoiled after our arrival here in Juba, the driver decided to leave me here and returned to Rumbek. I became unhappy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIhave stayed here (in the streets) for 3years now because I have no place to stay and I don\u2019t know anyone here. That\u2019s why I became part of the street. Living in the street is hard. Sometimes I wonder what mother and father think about where I am. They don\u2019t know whether I am dead or alive,\u201d the weak looking teenager solemnly said.<\/p>\n

Unlike Mabior who was driven out of his house by poverty, Bo Bol, aged 19 from Warrap State, endured a torrent of abuse at hands of his father who would beat him with \u2018a big stick\u2019 and forced him to cultivate from morning to evening even when he was exhausted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI left our home because my father used to beat me every day with a big stickand he would tell me to cultivate from morning up to evening while I couldn\u2019t manage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bol longed to see his mother and siblings but the thought of coming face-to-face with his abusive father when he returns home discourages him from visit the family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI only want to see my mother and my brothers and sisters, so that if I die they will bury me while I have already seen them, and not my fatherwho forced me to run away from home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His younger friend known as Doctor Jumasaid a friend lured him from his home inYiroltown of Lakes State to come to Juba with a promise of connecting the 11-year toa pastor and philanthropist who would pay for his school fees and live a better life in the city.<\/p>\n

All Juma got in Juba was suffering; lack of food and no good place to sleep, and his dream of becoming a doctor one day had longvanished.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am Doctor Juma, 11 years old, I come from Yirol,\u201d he said. \u201cI am here (in the street) because of my friend deceived and told me to leave my home and come to Juba.\u201d<\/p>\n

He told me that a pastor would come and to take me to school. I wanted to be a doctor so I came. My dream is to become a Doctor,\u201d said regretting why he believed his deceptive friend.\u201cAll I want is to go to school and become a doctor someday. I will be glad if someone come and take me to school,\u201d he wished.<\/p>\n

Much older among the boys is Marko Madut who said he was recruited in the army at the age of 15 when war broke out in 2013. Madut was forced to see what children his age are not supposed to see. He said he was sent to several frontlines to fight the war now described as \u2018senseless\u201d by the leaders who started.<\/p>\n

Originally from TonjWarrap State, Madut now aged 24, quit the Tiger Division of the now South Sudan Defense Forces (SSPDF) join the streets when he lost most of his friends and colleagues to war.Madut said hunger was another cause of desertion the army.<\/p>\n

\u201cI became homeless because I was a child solider, I had joined Tiger division of South Sudan people defense forces (SSPDF) in my youngerage but I left it becausewhen we weresend tofrontline, I would see a lot of my colleague being killed every day, and at the same time no enough food for us.That is why I left Tonj and came to Juba here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The boys live in a group and gather empty bottles and metal scraps and sell them to buy food or collect food wastes from garbage and restaurants\u2019 rubbish bins.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe areappealingto everyone outside there who are listening to our voices, we need a good shelter, clothes, education and better place to stay because some of us here are orphans our parents were killed during the war in 2013 and 2016 and we have no good places to stay in,\u201d Madut plead.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. We have no food to eat and no place to sleep; we are just sleeping next to the road side or at verandas of shops or next to the hotel,\u201dMaob Mabior, 17, lamented the sorrowful life had to live in the streets of Juba circumstances forced him out his home in Rumbek. 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