The Power of Perseverance: The Inspiring Story of a Refugee Nurse

We don't have the name [for the cat], we call [it] only cats. [We have had the cat for] four months. 

Have you traveled? Where have you traveled to?:

Yes, from DRC, Bujumbura, Tanzania, and here Malawi. Burundi is a country, the capital is Bujumbura. [I went] DRC, from Burundi, and Tanzania, here in Malawi. I travel with the bus. But Burundi I go there and I live there at least one year, two years, yeah. Like in 2018. I went to visit family. After that I came to Malawi passing Tanzania.

Note: the capital of Burundi changed to Gitega in 2019. 

What do you do for work?:

I'm a nurse. [I got my training] in 2016, 2017, and I was done in 2019. [Working here at the medical center] I'm a general [nurse]. Even [working] here in the pharmacy, the nursing, yeah. I was worked [as a nurse] in DRC. Here I work everyday. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then Monday again. It's 24 hours [a day] because I'm here. Sometimes I'm going to lunch for one hour. I sleep very good. It's simple. [I sleep] here. It's not every day, sometimes I'm going home, sometimes I sleep here. But everyday I am here. Even if I'm going home, it's only to see something and come back here. I [take meals] at home. I go home take meals and come back. I go home sleep a little and come back. Because this month, we don't have the person who can work with the cashier [so I just do that as well]. That is why I am here everyday, because there is no another person that can come and do this here.

*Note: right now she is working as the pharmacist, the cashier, as well helping the other nurse in any way necessary.

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