Yesterday was national none child abuse day. To raise awareness I joined a march around Laura Flores and handed out information leaflets on sexual abuse.

As you know LF is our shanty town where I work twice a week. It's built on a rubbish tip and is horrible but is massively over crowded.

 As I've said before only people in the worst situations live in LF. Nobody is there because they want to be there, they are there because they are the poorest and usually seen as worthless. Yesterday was hot and walking round made me so thirsty that I made a comment in passing to a child. They came back 10 minutes later with a drink they had specially bought for me! I know the family and believe me they don't have money to spare. I was so touched by their generosity I wanted to cry.

   I know a few families there and yesterday I was joined by 5 sisters. Gorgeous little girls! They followed me round, holding my hand and skipping along and generally chatting away to me none stop all afternoon. All of them at once was quite exhausting but they were so happy to join in and friendly that I didn't have the heart to shoo them away. As I walked along I read my info sheet and saw this-21.4% of all children and teenagers in Ecuador have been sexually abused. That is a huge and horrifying number.

  I looked down at the sisters and realised statistically one of them may have been abused.