sesita, like many young women from poor rural areas, is uneducated. she speaks mainly a tribal language and her swahili is limited but her distress at what has happened to her is clear. it is hard to comprehend the trauma she's experienced but sesita told us she wanted to speak so that others can understand the help needed here. when you hear really heartbreaking stories like sesita, how do you balance out that trauma with the joy, really? that is very difficult because, of course, culturally, life is very different here as well. what we've got to focus on is we are making her life better. we're enabling her to move on from that trauma. i met her last year, just after her stoma surgery.