FROM A VICTIM TO A CRUSADER 

She was barely 10 years old when she started menstruation. Since it was a taboo to discuss matters regarding sexuality, young Christine Khamasi Sakali had no one to turn to explain to her what was happening to her body. Her step mother only laughed at her mockingly, while her grandmother could only use metaphors, telling the little girl that she should beware of ''snakes.''

More confused, she could not get help at school either since whenever the strange bleeding came, the teacher sent her home, where she only faced her stepmother’s mockery, and she would end up spending most of her time hiding in the maize plantation. Then came the sexual abuse from a ''good samaritan'' who helped her with sanitary pads, and later from her employer where she worked as a househelp but eventually sacked after she became pregnant. Christine gives her heart rending story to BLISS OASIS AFRICA, explaining how she recovered and how sh