“One day, we heard people in the street crying loudly. I saw that the enemies were close... and hid in the roof. Two men came... Both of them raped me.”

The militia group took Nsimire to their camp as one of their ‘wives’. After two days she escaped, when the Congolese army came across the rebel camp.

Save the Children’s Accelerated Learning Programme gives young people like Nsimire a chance to catch up on the education they have missed. Until she joined our Accelerated Learning Programme, Nsimire had never been to school.

“I’m getting good things through education. Many other girls who are older than me come with their letters and ask me to read for them. School is helping me to forget all my worries.”

*not her real name