Akon Deng Bior was born in Kongor in 1986. In the 1990s, she came to Kakuma with members of her family.
As a young girl she loved to go to school but had to stop when she turned 18. She became a mother and that was the beginning of all her problems.
The man who she had a baby with refused to marry her and then her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Akon looked after her mother until her death. Her father wanted to return South Sudan as part of the voluntary return of refugees but Akon refused to go.
Akon had left South Sudan while she was still a very little girl and feared her life would be more complicated if she was to go back with her dad.
Instead, she travelled to Nakuru and she was expecting. While in Nakuru, poverty hit her hard because she had no external help.
Akon first settled with her uncle then moved to rent a small room where she pays the monthly rent of about 700 Kenyan shillings. In her new place, one of Akon's children fell sick but she didn't understand the severity of the illness.
One day, she decided to take the child to the nearest public hospital. It was there that doctors told her her child was dead.
“I took my child and they said that the child was dead. How can you tell me that my child is dead? Knowing what happened, I have no one to help me in burial. I asked these Kenyans if they could help me to bury my child. I told them that I have no one to help me and they helped me.”
Despite these sufferings, Akon later changed the direction of her life by starting a small business by scaling charcoals then later opened a small kiosk.
