My name is Jeanine Nizigiyimana, and I am 32 years old. I live in Nyabagere, a neighborhood of Bujumbura city, Burundi, in a mud house with 11 family members – my husband, our three children, my sister and her two children, and four children from another sister.

My sisters and I were born and raised in Taba, a part of the Kamenge commune in Bujumbura-Mairie province. During the civil war, my family had to flee because of the heavy fighting and shooting. I was forced to quit school, and I spent my days helping my mother around the house.