00:10When I see people from different countries, then I'm always friendly.
00:16Then I explain about my life story.
00:20If they have interest, then they come close to me, do holiday together.
00:25In Europe, she has a lot of stress, so she's really happy to enjoy life with me.
00:36We have to go to the beach to be friendly with different people, then we get part of living.
00:43With no money, no food. So I prefer to do like that so that I can get money.
00:53Ali is one of a small group in Kenya who are known as Beach Boys.
00:57They are all handsome young African men who often keep older European women company.
01:13I was 20 years old, and he was a lady from Germany. The name is Diana. This is like a
01:21present. She is 75 years old.
01:24She tells me that I look for Kenyan men to do just holiday together.
01:32We do sex at midnight, morning hours. Then he gives me money. Then I spend with my family at home.
01:46For many, making a living on the beach is perfectly normal. It's almost impossible to find any other job around
01:54here.
01:55I have my Kenyan wife. She knows about Diana. And she's not jealous with Diana. And she's happy because they
02:06send me money. Then I spend with my wife at home.
02:10Every month, she send me 300 euros. And I solve my problem. For my kids, for sisters, I pay for
02:18school, food.
02:22Ali admits that without the money, his family would have struggled to survive.
02:27He's gone to bed on an empty stomach more than once after coming back from the beach without having made
02:31a penny.
02:32And with little hope for a brighter future.
02:37So we are living in this local village. And our village, there is no industry. So our industry is like
02:45on the beach.
02:47Dozens of young men come here each day. It's like a regular job.
02:51Salty waves and pretty girls their own age don't seem to interest them at all.
02:56Akuna Matata, no, I don't really want us to be thinking about money or problems.
03:00Put a drink in our hand, put our feet in the sand. That's all I've ever really wanted.
03:05I'm going to show you the world through a brand new land. Start the party when the party ends.
03:11I'm not really trying to go nowhere in a hurry. Akuna Matata.
03:14It's no surprise that older men go to Africa seeking physical relationships with younger girls.
03:21It's less well known that young African males are popular too.
03:25Especially with European women over 50.
03:44But this pastime, even if you look past the moral issues, has one major drawback.
03:51The local guys render themselves obsolete quite quickly. Not to mention the emotional burnout.
03:59It's not easy because they want to spend just f**k, f**k, f**k, f**k, f**k.
04:06So now even if I get another one, no more. No, just what I have, it's enough.
04:22Of course, think Kenya, think safari. The country is famous for its national parks and rich wildlife.
04:29Seeing Africa's big five, the rhino, lion, elephant, buffalo and leopard, is the dream of every tourist who visits.
04:44But not everyone limits themselves to contemplating nature.
04:48After an exciting safari, some go on their own hunt for other thrills and even fleeting relationships with young Kenyans.
04:55Even if they are often underage.
05:02Three years ago, I met a lady from Germany.
05:06I was 16 years old.
05:10She came and sat next to me.
05:16So I asked her, what's her name?
05:19She said her name was Alice.
05:21She was 58 years old.
05:23We sat together, talking, talking about my family, how I earn for a living.
05:32So she said, okay, it will be hard to understand me, but you have to.
05:40You said that you are 16 years and I'm 58.
05:43What about if I'll be your girlfriend?
05:47I don't understand what she needs, but one day she told me, hey Juba, I need sex with you.
05:55You're a small boy.
05:56Okay, you're a small boy, but you are very strong.
05:59Then she asked me, what do you want to earn on a living while I will be back to Germany?
06:06I said, maybe you can buy me a motorcycle.
06:23Initially, a lot of people thought it was just about girls and women that were being sexually exploited.
06:28But we have increasingly seen young boys and men being sexually engaged with tourists, with business communities.
06:35High levels of poverty, high levels of unemployment are pushing more and more young people, both boys and girls, into
06:43sexual exploitation.
06:46The majority of people here rely on casual words.
06:51Poverty is number one in this area.
06:56So generally, it is a very vulnerable slum in the country called Kenya.
07:04I was born and raised from this place.
07:07So I grew seeing the problems that my parents, my siblings and myself were going through.
07:19Leah Ngalobo is a director at the Legacy Education Center.
07:23She's worked here since 2012 and dreams of changing the world around her for the better.
07:29She's a woman.
07:30They're friends.
07:32These are people that will only see good life on televisions.
07:35Televisions that they do not even own.
07:39They are young.
07:42They are young.
07:43You want to become rich early and your parents cannot afford to take you to that level.
07:49What do you think about next?
07:51You think, let's get an easy money.
07:52And how do you get that easy money?
07:55You will go to the coastal, you become a beach boy, you get an old mzungu.
08:00In Kenya, white people are known as mzungu,
08:03and lighter skin tends to suggest that you have a lot of money.
08:07That's an unshakable belief in these parts.
08:10Poverty is the biggest contributor of these,
08:13because they're coming from the poor background.
08:17There's need of informing these boys.
08:20There are other ways, there are other sources.
08:22of getting resources or other money than targeting old women or other foreigners from other countries.
08:34You're growing older.
08:36As time goes by, you grow older.
08:38So you're no longer in the market.
08:46So hello, my name is Leontina.
08:49I'm from Germany.
08:50I'm 32 years old, I don't have problems with my age.
08:54Leontina is a volunteer at the Bring Life organization.
08:57She's been in Africa for several months.
09:00After quitting her job as an IT consultant, she bought a one-way ticket without really knowing quite where she
09:05was going.
09:06She had just one goal, to change her life.
09:11Yeah, it was all great, living day for day, work your hours, eat, and then you go to sleep again.
09:19Yes, and then I just wanted to say, I said to myself, no, I need a change, and so therefore
09:28I said, no, I quit my flat and my job and wanted to be free and see the world.
09:42I just wanted to see something very new for me, and I decided to go to Kenya.
09:49So the reason also I wanted to go to Africa is because it's just a different world for us.
09:54I wanted to see the real life, not just the tourist side of Kenya, how the people are living here,
09:59how they survive, how they deal with the poverty.
10:13So I'm here at a dentist organization, Bring New Life, and I work here, or I support them with their
10:19school missionary work, so I bring them, bring those kids some small color sheets so they can learn to draw.
10:43With the help of Denise Laptiekin and his comrades, schools are built in more remote areas of Kenya, and provide
10:50children from nearby settlements with regular classes.
10:57So it is empowering the young people with the right skills that they can be able to use to be
11:02able to get jobs that do not necessarily have to do with their exploitation of their bodies.
11:31The fact that children don't just get an education, but food too is a key factor for many families in
11:37deciding whether to send them to school.
11:47It's not always possible to give the children meat.
11:51The food basket for students in the outskirts of Malindi is quite modest.
11:56Everything is stewed in huge bowls, so there's enough for everyone.
12:05The food basket for students in the outskirts of Malindi.
12:06Teachers and volunteers cook together.
12:09The food basket for students in the outskirts of Malindi.
12:13The food basket for students in the outskirts of Malindi.
12:29The food basket for students in the outskirts of Malindi.
12:38The food basket for schools in the outskirts of Malindi.
12:52These meals are a huge support for the children.
12:55Denis says he was prompted to start the mission here in particular
12:59by what happened on the beach,
13:01where he was offered sexual favors from young women, men and even children.
13:08A large population that lacks education results in unemployment and poverty.
13:16All factors that force young men and women into the sex trade.
13:20But mostly it's the many Mzungu who come in search of exotic experiences,
13:25who push young people into selling themselves.
13:29Mainly tourists come here to enjoy the beach, sun and sun,
13:34but in addition to that some do come here also to find sex,
13:39which is available and which is fairly cheap for them.
13:42And predominantly they'll come older persons.
13:46If you go to the beach, even right now, to that beach right now,
13:50you'll find a much elderly lady walking around with a much younger man.
13:54They are drivers of sex tourism.
13:57A lot of communities within the Kosovo region
14:00do not frown upon such occasions where there's a younger person
14:04seeking an older tourist for sex.
14:07Indeed, it's celebrated when that happens.
14:10If there's a young man who's able to get an elderly lady to be their girlfriend,
14:17I mean, all other young men admire them,
14:19and the community around consider that a gain for them.
14:35They believe that somebody coming as a tourist is carrying dollars and a lot of money.
14:40So, as I said, it's seen as an easy way out of poverty.
14:48My name is Abdallah Suleiman. I'm 18 years old.
14:52I make bangles and necklaces using beads and sell to people
14:58so that I can get something to cut out my life.
15:01I started to make bangles and necklaces when I was nine years old.
15:07They were still in primary school.
15:09I used to make them and go to the beach and start to sell to the Europeans, the foreigners.
15:16And during that time, I met an old woman.
15:20She was called Louise from Switzerland.
15:22She was 52 years old and I was nine years old.
15:28I interrupted with that woman.
15:31She was my best friend and she lastly wanted to know about my background
15:36and also the culture from the village.
15:39At that time, we were living in a small house.
15:43It's a hut, a poor house.
15:45And she promised me to build for me a house and other things which she promised.
15:52And she also lastly told me that she loved me.
16:04At that time, when we stayed in a room, I with her, she removed my clothes and also removed her
16:11clothes.
16:12She forced me to have sex with her but I couldn't do that.
16:23She was eager to do that but to me, it was too hard. I refused.
16:30I now didn't understand why someone of 40, 50 plus years will reach out to a little child to engage
16:38in sex.
16:38It's because it's exploitative from the word go.
16:41However, it is happening.
16:43And with all the laws around, still some brave fellas or some stupid fellas still find it an opportunity to
16:51come and engage in sexual exploitation of children.
16:54That's why we fight it.
17:00And we stayed as lovers for two years.
17:04During that period, we didn't have sex but we had deep kissing, touching until when she moved and went back
17:13to Swiss.
17:16Also, she fulfilled the promise of building a house.
17:20She built for me a house not that expensive but good.
17:26For instance, I know if you are in any European country and you dared touch an underage, you will be
17:33in deep, deep trouble.
17:34Perhaps the makeup is such that, well, this African country probably has less stringent laws, let's just go and have
17:42fun and this is our opportunity to do it.
17:49The kids, they just run to you and they hug you and they love you right from the beginning and
17:54also on my first day in school, they were just running.
17:57They were so happy to see me.
17:59They all wanted to give me a high five.
18:02They have so much love, so much joy and they show us this love and they don't hide it.
18:23And also the side of lessons, we do a lot of activities with the kids.
18:27Today we went also to the field and did some competition with the kids and they're very lucky that they
18:34have a very, very big field so they feel free to run and have fun and just being kids.
18:51This is very, very interesting to see, to combine all these lessons and also to be free to go to
18:57them with the field and just having some games with them.
19:07You can see how they are, how they are all good, but you don't know what's going on at home.
19:14They don't know what's going on at home.
19:15They don't even sell them, but they often sell them.
19:17This is what they are trying to do with their relatives.
19:39For tourists who visit exotic countries seeking romance, Kenya is a reliable and proven destination.
19:46It's a trip that always lives up to expectations, no matter how brazen they might be.
19:53So what happens is that Kenya being a popular tourist destination, the practice of sexual exploitation of children in travel
20:00and tourism is quite common, especially along the coast region.
20:04The problem is pretty huge because children are being subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation at a very young age.
20:12My name is Ali. I'm 16 years old. I was nine years old and she was from Germany, Lisa.
20:23When we met, we started hugging each other, kissing each other. I think she noticed that I was afraid. Then
20:31she did not ask me to sex with her.
20:34She failed to tell me, but she liked it. Yeah. And I did it. Those things were new to me.
20:42Because I didn't have that. She wanted even more than that. But I couldn't. Because I was too young, I
20:51was afraid to have sex with her.
20:53I have no words. And I truly don't believe this. Yes, if men go to this place to get some
21:04young flesh, I believe it. But for women, I can't believe the story.
21:09For women, I think.
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