Gassilde

For Gassilde, growing up as a Hutu girl in Burundi in the 1960s means she has little choice about the path her life will take. It means she will marry youngand that the man she marries will have little or no respect for women. It means her father, brothers, and eventually her husband will have the right to beat heror worse. It means she will grow up in a farm community without an education. As one of seven children, she, along with her sisters and her mother, is expected to work in the fields ea