Source: UN Children's Fund
Country: Nigeria
Sixteen-year-old Grace fled her home in March this year after witnessing the brutal beheading of her father by the armed group Boko Haram, in Baga, Northeast Nigeria. “When my father was killed, we had to leave our town,” she recalls. “I thought that was the end of the road for me.”
But it wasn’t.
I met Grace in May at a camp in Maiduguri, in Borno State, where she is living with the remaining members of her family. Her mother is now responsible not only for Grace and eight of her brothers and sisters, but also for four of Grace’s cousins, whose father was killed in another attack. Grace worries about their predicament, she told me. But along with her concerns about her family’s survival, Grace is also desperate to continue her education.
