Norah is 12 years old and lived with her abusive mother after her father died when she was a young girl. Her mother, who was dying of HIV, expressed her depression with her situation by beating Norah. One night, her mother forced her out of the house in the middle of the night and Norah at age 5 was raped by a man in the streets.

As she talks about in the video, one day after being beaten Norah ran to one of our Community Resource Centers nearby her house. In 2009 Norah and her cousin Mirriam moved into the Tree of Life Children’s Village.