First, she stayed with her uncle but his wife mistreated her, denying her a chance to read her school books at home, assigning her a lot of housework, not providing her with tea or snack, sending her late to the well in addition to verbal abuse. She could not take it for long so she chose to run away. She was in Primary Five at the time. Her uncle did not care much in helping her pursue her education. He never paid her school dues from her mother’s inheritance as agreed by the family.
