Sex Work for Fish and a Handful of Kenyan Shillings

According to a non-governmental organisation known as Strengthening Community Partnership and Empowerment (SCOPE), more than 15,000 children in the Kenyan south coast are used for commercial sex work in tourism.

People at Gasi Beach in Kwale County, on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, wait for fishermen to buy the daily catch.

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