Jeanette with her family in her tiny home. Despite the fact that her four children share one tiny bed, Jeanette is better off than most of the other genocide survivors we have met.
During the genocide, Jeanette lost almost all of her family, including her husband and her 3-year-old daughter. Her son survived, and Jeanette remarried and had three more children after the genocide. In 2005, Jeanette discovered she was HIV-positive, a likely consequence of the rape she endured during the genocide. Her oldest son was also infected with HIV, as was her second husband, who passed away in late 2005.
