In pictures: Underground children

As we were talking to Dawit, 12, he eyed a rubber wristband and we gave it him, but the next day it had gone.

“It was stolen last night,” he said, crestfallen. “When I was sleeping, someone grabbed my neck and started choking me. They said: ‘Give it to me or I’ll take your life.’ So I gave it them.”

He shrugged his shoulders and walked off with a friend down the busy street - unnoticed.

Text and pictures: Will Connor and Mesay Berhanu