Esther standing among the remains of her burned out home.
Eldoret testimonies 1
Four Friends from Eldoret Friends Church describe their experiences during the violence that followed the 2007 elections
Esther Kinadoso is a Quaker and attends Eldoret Friends Church. During the post-election violence her house was burned down
After the elections in 2007, when they announced the person who had won, there was a tension that started that night. We were not sleeping in our house: we went and gathered ourselves in another house.
When the tension continued, the people who had collected there started moving away from the house where they had gathered, so they ran away from that house. Some went to the police station and others came to this church. Then houses were set on fire. My house was burned on the third day.
I stayed in the Eldoret Friends Church for three days. There were seventeen families and in total there were sixty-eight people. I have five children and the youngest two, aged ten and twenty, live with me. I also had to look after them during this time.
