I was born in 1990 into a family with three children. My father died in the genocide, and I lived with my mother thereafter.
My mother re-married in 1997, but my step-father would not accept me as their child and he would beat me. I tried to do lots of small jobs to help the family, but still my step-father said that I did nothing. It was hard for my mother to see this happen to me, and had high-blood pressure and went to the hospital.
The doctors could not help her and they sent her back home even though she was still sick. …
