Shillingi is such a strong woman that anyone with a desire to keep a troublesome marriage and a fragile relationship would approach to get challenged, nurtured, and fixed. She endured a marriage dominated by violence and harassment for about 50 years. Having married at a very early teen age as a result of family arrangements and which were completely outside her commonsense of things, she resolved to stay married in order to please her parents and for the obedience of some tribal customs of the time that strictly prohibited a married woman to break her marriage unless her husband took the lead for it.
She gave birth to 13 children but only 3 of them are still alive. She currently lives in Kyaka II refugee camp, Uganda with her son, and lives by what WFP gives to her and works very hard in her plot of land in which she grows some food crops and vegetables. Her great aspiration in life is having a decent and secured shelter as well as seeing her son performing well at school.
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