To get to where this story takes place, you can’t just hop in your car and drive there. In fact, you’d have to take a couple of flights just to find yourself on another plane or maybe even a river boat. Iquitos, Peru, is the largest city in the world not accessible by road. Located in the Amazon jungle, this isolation comes with many difficulties and barriers. Most of the people there live in poverty and don’t have running water. And 1 in 12 children under the age of 15 in the Loreto region of Peru are orphaned. For many children in Iquitos, childhood is marked by poverty, instability, and abandonment. One of those children was a boy named Gene. Listen now on all platforms to hear @not_forgotten’s story.