Impoverished families in Tanzania are being tricked into giving up their disabled children by human traffickers. Promised a better life, the children are instead smuggled into Kenya and forced to beg, often for years.

Africa Eye goes undercover to expose the traffickers trading in human misery and helps one young victim escape his captors.

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Credits:
Reporter - Njeri Mwangi
Tanzanian Journalist - Florence Majani
Executive Producer - Seamus Mirodan
Edit Producer - Dickon Le Marchant
Producer - Kassim Mohamed, Hussein Mohamed
Director - Pete Murimi & Elijah Kanyi
Film Editor - John Moratiel
Camera - Elijah Kanyi, Pete Murimi, James Gitungo
Drone Operator - Nick Wambugu
Production Manager - Simon Frost
Graphics - Medioto
Reversioning Producers - Anna Payton, Izzy Fleming
Impact Producer - Courtney Bembridge
Digital Producer - Tamasin Ford
Social Media Producer - Anusha Kumar
Online Editor - Chris Stott
Sound Mix - Jez Spencer
Colourist - Boyd Nagle
Production Coordinators - Charlotte Fraser, Max Murrain
Translator - Tina Robi
Africa Eye Editor - Tom Watson

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