Friends Women’s Association JULY 2022 Report

“My name is Leilla. I grew up in a family where my parents were always quarrelling. I was born in Sororezo, Bujumbura province. When I was 15 years old, my mother left my father because she was beaten almost every day. It was since that time that I started to do the work my mother…

“I was born into a family of an irresponsible father who sold all our fields for no reason. When one of her children was sick, instead of paying for medical expenses, he used to say: “the pit to bury him is already available”My mother was dead; He had another wife and continued to give birth…

“I am that woman victim of GBV who wanted and planned to kill my husband. I wasn’t lying because I had already tried it for my first husband; it was even said on the radio: I threw hot water on his body and I fled to the DRC country.  I spent 2 years there. They…

I got married at 16; I was in the refugee camp in Kenya. My husband began dating a girl who was my maid. One day at night……………………….

Normally my husband lives in Bujumbura, He comes in village to impregnate me only because he knows that I am a woman who knows how to search for money. I did family planning to avoid birth because I have 2 children who are on special medical assistance because of their malformation. When he saw that…