Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum

by Friends Women's Association
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum
Helping Girls and Young Women in Bujumbura Slum

Project Report | Apr 11, 2023
GLOBAL GIVING APRIL 2023 NARRATIVE REPORT

By Parfaite Ntahuba | Project Leader

1. My name is Desiderate; I got married at 17 in the village. After a few months my husband left me. I was pregnant and I gave birth to my baby when the husband had not yet returned home.

My in-laws started mistreating me and pushed me to leave the house. I headed towards Bujumbura; I didn't know where I was going; I just took the bus. Arrived in Bujumbura I sat down at the edge of the road.

At sunset a woman approached me and proposed me to go to her home. I spent months with her, and she proposed me to marry a man illegally and I accepted. I lived with this man; unfortunately he died after a few months.

 I decided to return to the village and my child fall seriously ill. That is how I learned that I and my child have HIV/AIDS because I continued to breastfeed my child. I understood that my second husband died because of HIV AIDS.

 I returned to Bujumbura. I had a husband. He has just left me with my three children. Now I am alone without any activity I suffer a lot. Thank you for inviting me to this workshop.

 

 

2. I spent a year in my marriage without children; that was the reason that my ex-husband mistreated me. He used to come with other girls and had sex in front of me; He forced me to watch them doing sex. When they finished He forced me to wipe their sex and I did it many time; It didn't affect me because I thought every woman had the worst and I didn't tell to anyone.

It came a time when I was very tired, I left that man and got married to someone worse than the first. Apart of polygamy and physical violence which is simple in our community my husband is a robber: if I buy a cloth for myself or a plate, He sells it,  I can't keep aything in my house.

I am a woman who tries to look for the money but He always robs me. Now I have rented a house but I haven't moved yet. I will soon leave him. Thank you for this workshop where I got a chance to talk about myself. Actually, I had a secret: I had planned to kill my husband at night with a little hoe. I can't bear to see him walking around with all the things He's got me endured. Now, I have changed my mind because of this trauma healing workshop.

 

3. “I was traumatized because I couldn’t have children in life. I married a man and I always had abortions.

When I had an abortion my husband was not even waiting for me to be healed He used to rape me sexually and the cycle of being pregnant and having abortion began as usual;  in 10 years I lived with my husband I had 10 abortions.

He said traumatic words to me because I was not able to give him children. He married another woman. The woman had a child and when He came home he beat me, telling me that I'm worthless.

I was without help even the community pointed the finger at me. I was an unhappy woman who hates herself and who desired death.

At the tenth abortion I decided myself to leave my husband’s house because I wanted to die of grief. I have the pain in my heart of not having children. I am old now and I have no one to help me”.

 We thank you for this rich moment which allows us to say what we have endured in our lives. I will try to do what you told us in this road of healing that we begin.

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Friends Women's Association

Location: Bujumbura - Burundi
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NTAHUBA PARFAITE
Bujumbura , Burundi
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