None of us knows what might happen the next minute, yet we still go forward because we have trust and we have faith.
She is called shadia.
She says that when she thinks about what she is going through, it even makes her cry.
This is her son.
He is called Mugisha Abdul.
He is 13 years old.
He was born like this, but that’s not all, because he can’t even talk.
Two months after she had given birth to this boy, his father died right away.
His family refused to accept this child because they said that shadya was a witch and was involved in some kind of witchcraft, and it is that that killed her husband and made her son look like this.
It meant that they did not want her in this family anymore.
However, she says that this is not true at all.
She has never gotten involved in such things- and she says that she was also surprised when her only child turned out like this.
She tried taking it for treatment in the first place, but they could hardly afford to pay the hospital bills.
It’s not only Harlat’s husband’s family that hurts her, but also the society that she lives in today.
Most of the people here believe and call her a witch.
This has been happening for years now.
She tried to move to different places, but nothing changed.
She is living in a very poor life and they can hardly afford anything to eat.
This is one of the reasons why life keeps getting harder day by day.
Today we visited shadia so that she can tell her story to the world, and this is how it all started.
Shadya was a normal young lady in a village that she grew up from.
Later she got married to a man that she was madly in love with.
Both their families were normal and none of them was disabled, so they never expected to come up with a child like this.
She got pregnant and she was well taken care of.
Until time forgiving bath came, they went to the hospital so that she could give birth.
At first, the baby was completely normal and it seemed like there was nothing at all.
Later the baby started behaving in a weird way.
Instead of the doctor sending them home, they transferred them to another hospital to check on the baby’s condition, because it was mysteriously getting thin day by day.
They had to check what was wrong and what was happening to their son.
Baby’s condition kept on getting worse.
Paying the hospital bills to the hospital that they had been transferred to was almost impossible because it was expensive and they were not working.
They had to wait until they got the money, and this was also not easy at all.
Two months later, her husband got sick too.
She was the one that was supposed to take care of both of them at the same time.
She says that this is one of the hardest moments that she has ever faced in life, since she had to find for them food, yet she was not working.
Days later, her husband’s condition got terrible and she did all she could to save him, but he finally died.
When this happened, he totally changed everything and anyone around her, which was terribly shocking.
They could hardly relate to how her child was terribly sick.
The way her husband mysteriously got sick and died- and they suspected that she might have something fishy going on This- is when they started calling her a witch.
Her husband’s family said that they never gave birth to such children.
They threw her out of the house with her baby, told her never to come back at all and take her evil spirits to somewhere else because, according to them, they weren’t ready to entertain any of it.