Last updated: 25 september, 2009 - 12:35 GMT
Living in a slum: a boy's story
Joseph says he is studying to be a pilot so that he can go to many countries
What is it like to be a child growing up in a slum?
Chibolya is one of the roughest parts of the Zambian capital, Lusaka.
Locals nickname it Baghdad because of the violence and drugs trade that flourishes there.
An estimated 30,000 people live there. One resident is 13-year-old Joseph Banda, who offered to show the BBC's Jo Fidgen around.
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First broadcast 23 September 2009
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