Exauce is a refugee from the DRC. She was forced to toughen up at an early age during the war that ravaged their home 10 years ago.
“We used to spend the whole day in the house because bullets would fly all day and bombs dropped all night.”
At the time, she was living in the house alone with her mother. Her father had traveled to Uganda to find better-paying work when the war started in Congo. One dreadful night when her mother had gone out in the night to find food for them, she met rebels who held her at gunpoint while dragging her back home. They slapped her, pointed guns at her face, and threatened to rape her in front of her daughter.
She brokered a deal with the rebels to cook them food every day in order to keep her life, andApologies for the incomplete response. Here are the remaining updates converted into the new template format: