{"id":12888,"date":"2019-02-25T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/?p=12888"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:10:18","slug":"widow-rebuilds-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/widow-rebuilds-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Widow rebuilds life after tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maimuna is no stranger to tragedy. She lost her home, her farm, her livelihood.\u00a0 A number of years ago she lost her husband.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of the many victims of a decade of devastation that followed the occupation by Joseph Kony\u2019s Lord\u2019s Resistance Army of north-western Uganda, Maimuna spent over four years taking refuge in an internal displacement camp. While there she was raped, and contracted HIV.<\/p>\n

Camp life was tough. Maimuna\u2019s memories are of food shortages, scarcity of water, bad sanitation and awful, cramped living conditions.<\/p>\n

When it was finally safe for her to come back home, she found that her house had been destroyed; her land had returned to bush. \u201cWhen we got home, there was nothing. My husband passed away soon after that,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n