Living in the slum

Slum is a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people. It's never an easy life to live down in the slum in a place like Nigeria, for a kid growing up in the slum is exposed to a hard life which they find it very difficult live a good life.
Large percentage of the population of Nigeria as a case example are poor people mostly out of the slum, no good education, no electricity, no good water, no good health care scheme in such environment because it's like they are abandoned with there state of living in patched roof and houses just for a place to lay down after the days struggle on the street, only few of us where able to push hard with the help of our parents to have a better future, not everyone is so lucky to fight through poverty in the slum.
It is widely believed that most of the criminal activities are from people living in the slum, it exposes little children who are suppose to be in school in there early stage of life to hardship and instead of school they join groups, they are liable to start smoking marijuana, taking hard drugs, "there is a saying that an idle mind is the devils workshop" they tends to involve in robbery and rape. Another aspect of this is the female children in the slum, it's never an easy place for a female child to grow up because it's either they end up with unwanted pregnancy, going into sex trade just to live by the day, this leads to teen deaths in the slum and still birth.
Furthermore, the slum is regarded as place where no good kid can come out from because it's either fight all the time or noises from different angles anytime of the day, lack of security enough makes the crime rate in the slum to an alarming stage that crime happens anytime and anywhere. Living in the slum is a different world entirely because it's the way you live and behave.
It is one of the problems of our economy today because this people has no job and they are exposed to many sickness on dirty water like cholera, malaria, typhoid fever to mention few, each day is a struggle to put food on the table but today I'm a living withness of some from the slum.