Kuma Za Malaya - Wa Tanzania

Neema used her emergency stash—the money she hid in a plastic bag inside the cistern of a public toilet—to buy Zainabu a bus ticket to a women's shelter in Arusha. She watched the bus disappear in a cloud of red dust.

"Men treat us like we are products on a shelf," she says, adjusting her kitenge wrap. "They search for us online when they are lonely or bored, but they do not want to know why we are here. They think we do this because we are 'malaya' [prostitutes] by nature. They don’t see the school fees I am paying. They don’t see the rent." Kuma Za Malaya Wa Tanzania