Gololiyoza
Before Joining the Group
I grew up believing the people who raised me were my parents. But whenever they got drunk, they would tell me I was not their child. When I asked the neighbors, they told me that my parents had been killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
I started school, but I dropped out in Primary Six. I was chased away from home and went to live with another family. Their son got me pregnant, and they also threw me out. When the time came, I gave birth to a baby girl, but she later died.
Everything I went through left me with wounds. I felt like I was losing my mind. I reached a point where I wanted nothing to do with people who are parents or men. I even put up a sign forbidding those people from coming to my home. Nothing in life brought me joy anymore; I spent all my days crying.
After Joining the Group
Eventually, Community Healing Assistants visited me and invited me to join the Imenye Wigire healing Circle. There, we took part in different sessions on inner peace, trust, the Tree of Life, and self-tapping exercises.
Today, I am at peace. I now earn a living selling tomatoes and have built a 16-sheet iron-roofed house, which I attribute to the lessons and encouragement I received through the healing circles.
My goal is to help people who have gone through experiences like mine by sharing what I have learned and teaching them about inner peace. I also want to continue improving my life through hard work so that my child can go to school.
Today, I am free, and I thank God for allowing me to become part of healing circles.
Nitwa Gololiyoza mfite imyaka 33
Ntaraza mu itsinda
Nakuze nziko abanderaga aribo babyeyi banjye. Nyuma baba basinze bakambwira ko ntari uwabo. Maze mbajije abaturanyi bambwira ko ababyeyi banjye bishwe muri Joneside yakorewe Abatutsi muri 1994. Ubwo natangiye ishuri ariko ngeze mu wa 6 ishuri ndarireka. Murugo baranyirukana njya kuba murundi rugo. Umuhungu wabo yaje kuntera inda maze naho barahanyirukana. Igihe cyarageze njya kubyara barambaga mbyara umukobwa nyuma aza gupfa.
Ibyo byose nabayemo byansigiye ibikomere kuburyo nari ngiye kumera nk’umusazi.
Nageze aho numvaga yaba ababyeyi, yaba abagabo, numvaga ntifuza kubabona; nagiye no kwandikisha icyapa cyibuza abo bantu kuza iwanjye numvaga mu buzima ntacyanshimisha nahoraga ndira gusa
Byageze aho abubatsi bamahoro baza kunsura bantumira kwinjira mwitsinda rya Imenye Wigire. Twagiye tugira ibiganiro bitandukanye harimo ituze ryo ku mutima, kwizerana, igiti cy’ubuzima, n’umwitozo wo kwikomanga.
Ubu ndatuje, nsigaye ncuruza inyanya, kandi maze kubaka inzu y'amabati 16 mbikesheje ibiganiro nakuye muri Imenye Wigire. Intego mfite nukwigisha abameze nkuko narimeze no kubagira inama nkabigisha ituze ryo kumutima. Ndashaka no kwiteza imbere kandi no gukora cyane kugirango umwana wanjye azige. Ubu narabohotse kandi ndashima imana yatumye mba mububatsi bamahoro.