The roads were already in extreme chaos back then. We couldn't drive far before we were robbed. Bandits set up barricades directly on the road.
My husband died in that conflict, and I couldn't even hold a funeral for him. I could only leave his body by the roadside and continue looking for a place to stay with the children."
The mother in the mother-child duo is named Lela, in her forties, she explained, "It's hard for me to stay long in one place, and it's impossible to wait for the crops in the field to mature.
In the beginning, searching houses sometimes yielded food. But the easily accessible food quickly ran out, and we had to keep migrating, looking elsewhere.
Gradually, the car ran out of gas, food became harder to find, and we faced competition; there was a chance we'd work all day and achieve nothing.
I also wanted to join a team, but many of the groups didn't need someone like me. The reason I came to Avoni Town was that it's an agricultural town.
