In Jamestown, a coastal shanty enclave in south Accra – Ghana’s capital – children are raised in stone caves and wooden shacks. Many of the families are squatters whom the government has tried to evict time and again, without success. The women roam better neighborhoods selling fish, bread, produce, water and soft drinks. The men fish. Or attempt to find work as day laborers. As for the children, education is their best hope for a future away from here. But the schools are underfunded and mostly ignored. Kids not much older than this boy often are forced into the streets as peddlers, like their mothers, to help contribute. They grow up illiterate. For thousands of Ghanaians who call Jamestown home, each day is like the one before, and every year is the same as the previous one. Their quest is simple: Survive.