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When Esperance and her family were forced to flee fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010, she had to make a decision few mothers can imagine: whether to take her four-year-old son on the arduous journey to safety.
When Esperance and her family were forced to flee fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010, she had to make a decision few mothers can imagine. She and her husband, Fidel, feared to take four-year-old Fils with them to Burundi, where they hoped to find safety and shelter. The trip would be arduous and the toll on a young child could be deadly.