With her two sisters, Ms. Meling, her older daughters, then 7 and 9, and the 4-year-old twin girls arrived in Kampala the day after the attack and found themselves homeless. To get by, Ms. Meling washed dishes during the day and sold bananas at night. Eventually, Ms. Meling and her sisters were hired as domestic workers at the home of a couple, who provided food and housing for them and the children. Then at a church one day in 2014, Ms. Meling met Joy Kiden, a fellow South Sudanese immigrant. About two years later, Ms. Meling rented a home — a single room in the Nsambya suburb of central Kampala — for her extended family.

Source: International New York Times December 28, 2019 09:56 UTC