My spell in prison won’t define my daughter and I - Teresa Njoroge

Teresa Wanjiku Njoroge founder of Clean Start. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The clank of the shutting gates behind me reminded me where I was. I was now one of them; the women in tattered clothing who dotted the compound.

How did I end up here surrounded by high walls topped with barbed wire? The three-month-old squirming bundle in my arms looked up at me, completely oblivious of our surroundings, or the inner storm that raged within her mother.