When we got to Uganda, my parents got jobs in a refugee camp. My dad was assistant doctor and my mom was a nurse, and they worked there for 10 years, helping the refugees who were sick with all kinds of life-threatening diseases.
They came here with their papers and everything, and they were told their papers weren't considered here, so my mom had to go back to high school at the same time as us. She fought really hard to get that education in Congo, where women don't have the right to education, and here, where we consider the country to have gender equality, her higher education was viewed as nothing. She had to go back to school, with six children to take care of.