Mother working as a vendor in the streets of Harare makes three dollars a day

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Mother working as a vendor in the streets of Harare makes three dollars a day

Journalist’s NotesInterview SubjectTanaka Moyo, 32, is a vendor in the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe. She lives in the outskirts of the city in a dormitory settlement called Epworth. Tanaka has been in the streets for a decade and has literally raised all three of her children in the streets. She works as a street vendor selling wares to augment the meager salary of her husband and to make ends meet. Her job is risky, but like other women in the s…