‘We can learn from these kids’: Street children in Zambia

When Daniel Mulilo Chama, a Zambian social worker, and Chris Lockhart, a longtime American aid worker in sub-Saharan Africa, met at a conference about youth empowerment in Lusaka, Zambia, in 2011, they quickly realized they shared a mutual wish. They wanted to see the stories of children living on the streets in Zambia told better.

When they were written about at all, street children often appeared as statistics, or worse, “treated like subjects and not real people,” Mr. Lockhart says. And Mr. Chama, himself a former street child, knew there was a heft and complexity to these children’s lives that could