This painting is about a wrong choice taken in life, in this instance by a young or teenage lady while trying to escape bad living conditions fin her village.

Being unskilled, uneducated and with a broken heart and scars from abuse, she went to a big city.

As she had no chance to get a good job she turned to drugs and prostitution for survival.

The two in one facial expression, as well as the necklace, symbolises that never in her life did she enjoy the rights that children deserve. She only endured physical and emotional abuse, with other rights denied her as well in order to survive for the future.

The worst circumstances of her life, the taking of drugs, is symbolised by an open grave with the skeleton figure holding a sword in the hand to finish off the person already looking like a dying figure, along with a vulture waiting to finish off the corpse.

A lack of good parenting and child abuse will create a lot of criminals, drug addicts, prostitution etc - all which is a burden to the already struggling economy.

Most of the time the abused will later become abusers themselves. It is very important for those who bring kids into this world to take good care of them. Happy, educated people equipped with skills will contribute enormously to the economy of the country.