Burundian woman living in Kenya talks about her painful life on the run: “We were sleeping on the streets''

• A refugee from Burundi has told the heartbreaking story of sleeping on the street with her child while on the run.
• Sonia Wimana and her two children know poverty because they begged for food and money.
• The 21-year-old, who was married when she was 10, was fleeing an abusive marriage when she arrived in Kenya.

When refugees flee their home countries, they always hope to find peace in a foreign land.

As one Burundian woman revealed, the situation can sometimes be as hostile, if not more so, than in her homeland.

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Sonia Wimana crossed the border into Kenya while fleeing her abusive husband.

talk to TUKO.co.ke, Wimana revealed that she was married to an old man when she was 11 years old.

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She suffered domestic violence and after clinging to her husband for a while, she couldn't take it anymore.

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She left her home, loaded her two children in a truck and headed to Uganda, before arriving in Kenya.

As a foreigner with nothing, life in her new land was not as easy as she expected.

“We were living in a temporary house just to protect us from the rain, but it was small,” she said.

She wasn't the only one always hungry in the small shelter, but so were her young children.

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In order to survive, the mother of two had to discipline her young children harshly and give them strange responsibilities at an early age.

“We used to go to hotels to beg for food and eat the leftovers with napkins and toothpicks.

Whenever I ate that food, I always got sick to my stomach,” said the homeless woman.

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At times, she sent her children to beg for food and money, risking their lives to child trafficking and other dangers.

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She recalled when one of her children came to her and told her that he had offered to give her 100 shillings if someone would sleep with her.

The 21-year-old young woman also showed how she collected pieces of mattresses and combined them with clothes to make a bed.

Wimana lived in fear for her life and that of her children, and prayed to God for the good Samaritans.

Stranger gives gift to homeless woman

Published in another article TUKO.co.kein a heartwarming moment, a homeless woman received a gift worth more than Sh2 million from a stranger.

The 73-year-old woman was seen wandering the streets, telling a stranger that her dream was to find a place to stay.

An elderly woman who lost her home in the storm was homeless for a long time until she received a surprise life-changing donation.

Source: TUKO.co.ke