by Candice Lassey | Aug 15, 2018 | Stories
Rasm "Many people did not make it and I still don't know if they are alive." ? Before ISIS came to our village I was the community leader and working as a shepherd for my cows and sheep. At 2am, we got a call to say that ISIS was on their way. Twenty of my...
by Candice Lassey | Aug 13, 2018 | Stories
Kado "It wasn’t easy when we arrived, I felt like life was against me" ? In Congo my wife and I were teachers. We were working and we had some security in our country. Then the rebels came and they killed my parents. They killed everyone, they did horrible things...
by Candice Lassey | Aug 13, 2018 | Stories
Agnes "My son was dead, I wanted the other family to lose someone too." ? When I went to Tutapona for the first time, I had problems. I came here with my 5 children from South Sudan, and I had to leave my husband behind. I heard last April that he had died; he...
by Candice Lassey | Aug 12, 2018 | Stories
Francine "And there, I was the wife of four men." ? I lived with my mother, grandmother, my aunties and their husbands. There had been rebels in the Congo for many years, rebels from different tribes and areas. We had been safe, until now. It was a rebel group...
by Candice Lassey | Aug 12, 2018 | Stories
Shana "We were sold to ISIS men" ? Our life in Sinjar was so good; my husband was working as a policeman and he adored our children. The day ISIS came, they separated the men from the women. They took 25 of my relatives and until now I still have not seen any of...