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
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
Support that she received on a Self Help Africa project provided Maimuna with goats, and with groundnut seed, and cassava cuttings.\u00a0 She also attended training courses in farming, and with the help of her children, started re-cultivating her farm.<\/p>\n