During the struggle life was very hard. My husband died and left me with one child. The enemy soldiers came to Cuibet, our home, and they tied our hands and our feet together in a line and we were forced to walk. My child was left in Cuibet; I never saw him again. I never heard what happened to him. I will never know if he is alive or dead. When we were walking I did not know whether I was alive or dead. We were forced to walk for many days in terrible heat toward eastern Sudan, and we were not given even water to drink.

After the struggle I came back to Rumbek. I have no people, no family. I am an old woman now without family to care for me. Coming to St. Monica’s I am able to work to get food. When I do not come I go days without eating. It is the Women’s Group here which allows me to live. I have no one else to care for me. St. Monica’s and God are my family now.

-Rosa Adak,
St Monica Women’s Group and Literacy Class, Rumbek

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