Rose is 11 years old. Her story:

I am third born to my parents. My parents divorced, and I grew up with my grandmother from the age of sixteen months on. My mother went to Juba in 2007 and married another man. I don’t know where my father is.

The activities I carry out in the camp are mostly helping my grandmother in domestic chores like sweeping, fetching water, firewood, washing utensils and others.

Life in the camp is not friendly. Back home my grandmother used to dig and get enough food from the garden but in the camp, there is no land for cultivation and we only rely on relief aid which are only beans. I feel bad eating beans all the time and seeing my grandmother struggling to get green vegetables for us to balance the diet in the family.

In school the situation is worse: badly equipped classrooms which are completely congested and teachers who do not teach regularly. We only wait for the end-of-term exams which take long to produce results. I will not know the level of my performance.

Since four months I’m participating in the sport and play-based activities. I like football, life skills games and creative dancing, singing and leading a game.

I joined the activities hearing friends talking positively about the activities they attend every Sunday for two hours and I got motivated. I now learnt lots of things that help me like hygiene, decision-making, protecting myself from bad friends.

I have made new friends and I help my grandmother. I’m praying that I can study and help my grandmother even more in future.