1. Young woman working as maid sweeping courtyard

2. Close up of maid's feet and broom

3. Maid at kitchen sink

4. Close up of maid's hands washing vegetables in sink

5. Maid hand-washing clothes

6. Close up of maid's hands washing clothes

7. Maid mopping floor

8. Close up mop

9. Various of family standing outside mud hut

10. Timnit Lulu, OPRIFS (Organisation for Prevention, Rehabilitation and Integration of Female Street Children) psychologist, entering office with 'Mulu', trafficking victim

11. Timnit Lulu and 'Mulu' sitting opposite each other during counselling session

12. SOUNDBITE: (Amharic) 'Mulu', Trafficked child (*name has been changed to protect identity*):

"I was living with my father and sister, my mother is dead, in the countryside in the north. One day a woman came to the house and told me that my father used to work with her on her farm and said that she would take care of me and give me an education if I went with her. So, my father accepted and I went to live with this woman. I never went to school as I ended up cooking and cleaning for the woman all the time or preparing coffee for her. I was with her for three years, until one day she told me she didn't have enough money to feed me anymore and so I was given to a 'friend' of the woman. When the work became too much in the new house, I escaped by running away."

13. Wide of girls in courtyard at OPRIFS centre

14. Various of girls at centre

15. Various of bunk beds at centre

16. Various of girls eating lunch at OPRIFS centre

17. Timnit Lulu surrounded by girls at centre

18. Lulu surrounded by girls at OPRIFS centre

19. Close up of Timnit Lulu

20. SOUNDBITE: (Amharic) Timnit Lulu, OPRIFS counsellor:

"It's difficult to counsel or even bring the children to talk. In our culture, we don't talk with our parents or discuss intimate things or deep feelings, so when the girls come here they don't want to talk to me, they resist. But when they see the other children being counselled, the ones who have become their friends and who have been trafficked or abused, they see that it's okay. They will ask their friends "what did you talk about" and they realise they are not alone. And slowly they will come to talk to me and tell me about their problems and secrets. They have to come by their own will, I cannot force them."

21. Wide of Addis Ababa's main bus station

22. Girl getting off bus

23. Female police officer at bus station

24. Close up of female police officer

25. Sign reading "SubCity Police Department Child Protection Unit"

26. Close up of sign

27. Inspector Atsede Wordofa, Head of Child Protection Unit, Addis Ababa Police, pointing at posters on wall of office

28. Various of Wordofa on phone in office

29. Various posters on wall saying "Don't send children to work, send them to school!"

30. SOUNDBITE: (Amharic) Inspector Atsede Wordofa, Head of Child Protection Unit, Addis Ababa City Administration Police Commission:

"The girls arrive at the bus station, they're either identified as likely trafficking victims by police there, or a member of the public will bring them to us. Then, once we've found out about their situation, we'll launch an investigation and the ones who've been abused will be allowed to stay at OPRIFS."

31. Wide of 'Dina', trafficked girl, standing in OPRIFS courtyard

32. 'Dina' standing in courtyard

33. SOUNDBITE: (Amharic) 'Dina', Trafficked child (*name has been changed to protect identity*):

"One day I was playing with some friends in the town I was living in and we saw some military police, we thought it would be fun to ask them for some biscuits. The police started telling me that if I were to go with them, they would raise me as their own child. So I got in to their car and we drove to a town called Awassa. When we arrived a woman was there to meet me and I think she gave them money for me."

34. Various of 'Dina' eating at OPRIFS centre

35. Close up on plate of food

36. Wide of girls in classroom at the OPRIFS centre

37. 'Dina' in classroom

38. Various of girls learning to sew with teacher at OPRIFS centre

39. Girls, including 'Mulu' at far left, learning to sew

40. Girls in classroom at OPRIFS

41. Teacher in classroom

42. Girls in classroom, including 'Mulu' second from right

43. Close up of 'Mulu' in classroom

44. Tilt down on "The Mission of UNICEF" poster at UNICEF offices

45. Close up of UNICEF logo on poster

46. Bjorn Ljungqvist, Head of UNICEF Ethiopia at his desk in office

47. Close up of Bjorn Ljungqvist at desk

48. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bjorn Ljungqvist, Head of UNICEF, Ethiopia:

"There are so large number of orphans in this country. The official figure is now more than six (m) million orphans here, probably the highest or one of the very highest in the world. And in many cases these children they don't have parents, so relatives or communities see them as a burden so that's why they try to use a good excuse to get rid of them. And if they say 'well, you know, somebody offered this and this and this' it might sound good even if they suspect, or they should know, that child is, may run the risk of being exploited in different ways."

49. Wide of OPRIFS courtyard

50. Girl standing in courtyard

51. Three girls standing in courtyard

52. Girls dancing at OPRIFS centre

53. Close up of girls' feet as they dance

LEAD IN:

Dozens of youngsters in Ethiopia are taken and forced to work against their will each week, according to Ethiopian authorities.

Some of the trafficked children are employed as domestic servants and kept within Ethiopia but others are sent abroad to work, sometimes in harsh and dangerous conditions.

But for some lucky children who escape their captors find refuge in a shelter in Addis Ababa.

The United Nations children's agency UNICEF estimates there are hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian youngsters, many as young as five years old currently involved in child labour.

Ethiopia is one of the world's poorest countries and many children are forced into employment or even sold in order to help their families financially.

Working children often end up missing out on both their education and their childhoods.

In rural areas of Ethiopia people typically have large families and many parents struggle to provide for their children.

'Mulu', whose name has been changed to protect her identity, says after her mother died, her father was looking after her and her sister.

But when someone approached him and promised to take care of 'Mulu' and give her an education, he agreed.

For the next three years, 'Mulu' was treated as servant at the woman's house in the city, and forced to do all the household chores.

She ran away and was found living on the streets, by police who brought her to the shelter for street children (Organisation for Prevention, Rehabilitation and Integration of Female Street Children - OPRIFS).

OPRIFS was started in 2000, and, is backed by organisations such as Save the Children, it helps girls aged seven to eighteen who have been trafficked and who end up on the streets.

Timnit Lulu a psychologist and counsellor at OPRIFS helps the girl's to talk about their experiences.

Many have been physically or sexually abused.

Timnit says that children find it difficult to express what happened to them.

The police in Addis Ababa work closely with the government and various NGOs (non-governmental organisations) like OPRIFS in an effort to stop child trafficking.

Inspector Atsede Wordofa, chief of Addis Ababa's Child Protection Unit says that as many as thirty girls are being brought to Addis Ababa every week.

Wordofa says that girls arrive at the bus station and are either identified as likely trafficking victims by police immediately or are later brought to police's attention by members of the public.

Fifteen year old 'Dina', whose name has also been changed, says she was just eight when she was trafficked from her home in northern Ethiopia.

'Dina' spent the next seven years in forced labour in various homes.

She says found herself too afraid to escape because as time went by she couldn't remember where she came from and since she never received a salary, she had no money to go anywhere.

'Dina' says she worked seven days a week cooking, cleaning and taking care of children, often for families who had children her own age.

Finally, after being kicked out by her employer, she managed to contact police who sent her to OPRIFS in Addis Ababa.

Here girls like 'Dina' receive skills training such as sewing or weaving, as well as a basic education.

The girls stay at OPRIFS for a maximum of six months, usually until their parents or families have been found.

The organisation is currently looking for 'Dina''s family.

Stories like those of the trafficked girls are not uncommon and child labour is widespread in Ethiopia where labour laws are vague.

UNICEF says one in three girls in Addis Ababa, aged between ten and fourteen, do not live with their parents and are working instead of going to school.

Head of UNICEF in Ethiopia Bjorn Ljungqvist says there are a huge number of children without parents or families in the country.

But at places like the OPRIFS centre these girls are learning how to enjoy being children again.