Finding safety again after displacement: Yakaka’s story

“Then the military brought us to Mafa,” she explains. Yakaka’s husband was a trader and she was selling groundnuts and farming before the conflict unexpectedly forced them out of their village. “We were comfortable: we could at least afford our day to day necessity and needs. So it became very difficult for us when we arrived here, living in the makeshift [shelter], with nothing and no one to cater for our needs, until we received the kits,” Yakaka remember

The family received an emergency shelter kit provided by ShelterBox and distributed by ACTED. It contained items such as timber wood, rope, nails, and two pieces of tarpaulin. They also received an NFI kit that contained jerrycans, pots, mats, mattress, blankets, etc. “The tarpaulin has really helpful to cover our shelter, we no longer have to worry about rain. We use the jerrycans to fetch and store water, and we now have mats to sit on and blankets to cover ourselves at night.”