Life-Changing Event

It was in 1996, on January 1st. I left Congo because of insecurity. There was too much war there. In 2012, we decided to leave Congo, which was our country, and left everything there, house, everything. We went to Uganda as refugees, me together with my family. In Uganda, we were staying in Nakivale refugee settlement. In Uganda, it was terrible because when you leave everything in your country, everything, then you go to start a new life in a new area where you know nobody there. They could not give us anything. They could only give us a piece of land. And apart from a piece of land, the government of Uganda could give us a plastic sheet, and we have to construct a house with poles and plastic sheets by ourselves, and that was very difficult. You could find people go hungry. You had everything in your country. Just because of insecurity, you find yourself homeless. You have nothing at all. That part was very difficult, and it took us some time to regain hope.