After Abeni, 16, escaped Boko Haram’s wrath in Nigeria, she hoped her increasing nightmare would come to an end.
The terror group killed her parents and her neighbors, according to Doctors Without Borders. Abeni grabbed her little brother, nephew and four neighbors and eventually made her way to the Dar es Salaam refugee camp in Chad. But her troubles are far from over.
Abeni hasn’t yet received her refugee card, so she and the children she arrived with aren’t receiving any food.
As of April, there were 126 other separated and unaccompanied children at the camp, according to UNICEF.
The kids who have witnessed Boko Haram’s horrors, which include rape, kidnapping and brutal attacks, among other crimes, are at a high risk for psychological disorders. But they barely have the resources to survive, let alone to process their traumatizing experiences.
[For more of this story, written by Eleanor Goldberg, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/..._7538199446448557241]
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