End Human Rights Abuses Against Alleged Witches

ANOTHER SUCCESS STORY

The quarter has been a very fruitful one as SONGTABA brings to it cherished donors  warm greetings for their continuous support to end gender based violence. The quarter has been an impactful one because one of the women accused of witchcrafts has finally been reintegrated back to her home community.

 Mariama, 85 years and she has stayed at the kukuo camp for almost 40years at the mercy of several challenges until her reintegration back to kumlan fong a suburb of Bimbilla community where she was accused. This made her to walk for 12 kilometers to seek  refuge at the kukuo camp which was the only safe place for her at the time of accusation. Your kind donation has supported SONGTABA to hold series of engagement meetings with her family and other traditional leaders to get the necessary process done before her reintegration.

She was accused of been behind the death of a 9 year old grandchild and she was banished from Kumlan fong. According to her, she has no knowledge of the death of the boy that got the youth of the community agitated and to attack her.

She has was staying at the camp with her granddaughter who came to support her do some household choirs. She shared her experience during her stay in the camp,

life was really very difficult for me when it comes to meeting my basic needs, I quite remember  how I felt sick and I didn’t have money and support from any of my family members, it was my granddaughter and other community members who picked me to the clinic for treatment. My entire family rejected me when I needed them most. There were instances I have to go support some farmers and sometime I have to stay in their farms just to remove the remainings just to have my evening meal. At the camp I didn’t know what three square meals were because I could not afford it. One of my saddest moment were when I have to stand for three hours because it was seriously raining and my room was liking which prevented me from sleeping.  Access to water was very difficult because I have to walk for 3 kilometers which had a negative impact on my health.

At the camp I felt the whole world was against me looking at what I went through, I therefore hope that, no humanbeing should go through what I went through, because it was inhuman and nobody should be made to experience that.

Currently, I feel like am out of bondage because am going to be reunited with my family which will help me meet my basic needs such water, shelter and food. I want to thank the donors for their support and hope that other women will have the opportunity to be reintegrated.

The process of reintegration is very cumbersome but it is worthy indicating the gradual reduction of these women at the camp. It is our hope and dream that, all the women will eventually be reintegrated back to their families and communities. The long term vision is to get this camps dibanded and with your kind donations that can be made possible

Thank you