“Growing up in Nyanga was and still is not easy. You must try by all means to be a better person and rise above the crime and poverty that cloud the place, while still putting food on the table at the end of the day for your family. I’m a father to four children, and selling this magazine and living a crime-free life have provided for my children,” he says.

Hendricks, 47, sells The Big Issue around District Six and entrepreneurship is nothing new to him, as he once owned a videography business.