Risa lives with 13 other women in a tea house in Kyoto. 15-year-old Risa is a "maiko" - an apprentice geisha. Her jobs consist of performing songs, dances, and playing the shamisen or the koto (traditional Japanese instruments) for visitors during feasts. She sleeps with five other women in a room that doubles as a dining room and a tea room.
6. Anonymous, 9, Ivory Coast
Despite being an orphan and refugee from the war in Liberia, this 9-year-old boy goes to school in Ivory Coast for ex-child soldiers and lives in a concrete shack with some of his classmates.