Junior, A Story of Hope

'My aunt threw me out of the house. The tumor above my right eye is getting bigger and she says it's a sign of the devil…'
This is how the story of twelve-year-old Junior begins. Due to a rapidly growing tumor above his right eye, he is thrown out onto the streets and has to survive on his own in the poor slums of Kinshasa. He becomes one of the many 'shegues', the street children who fight to survive every day. When he also gets leprosy, he seems like a sitting duck. Only a miracle can save him... In 2007, Junior was the figurehead of the Damien Action campaign. Luc Descamps visited him in Kinshasa and, together with him, reconstructed a period of almost five years in the life of a street child. Junior's story is both shocking and moving and gives a beautiful picture of the crucial role that Damien Action plays in the lives of people for whom all hope seems lost.