Jeanine Nyagufi’s Story, Burundi
Photo by UNHCR/A. Nijimbere/2014.
More than 20 years later, Jeanine has returned to her homeland Burundi. Compelled to leave her home in Gisenyi town in the District of Buganda, Cibitoke, because of war, she took refuge in the camp of Ruvuge in the Itara location in Democratic Republic of Congo. She remained there 20 years.
Photo by UNHCR/A. Nijimbere/2014.
She left with 20 members of her family (her father, mother, brother and sister-in law, and their 10 children and her other siblings). But the war in Congo found her there and forever changed the course of her life. Her father, mother, brother and four of his children were killed. The rest of the family fled separately, and she still doesn’t know where they are.
Photo by UNHCR/A. Nijimbere/2014.
After a life of misery where she also lost her husband, she decided to come back home. She could no longer live in Congo and her children did not attend school. She returned with her 4 children: Nadine, 15 years old, Chanceline, 5 years old, Christine, 3 years old, and Janvier, 1 year old. “I do not know what’s going to happen here, I just want to live, because I know it will not be easy as a widow. I only hope that my children will finally go to school”.
Texte by A. Nijimbere/2014.
