Story | 24 June 2021
It was 9am on a Saturday in late March when Aster, a mother of seven, turned from her kitchen stove to the horrifying sight of the bedroom she shared with her husband being set on fire.
She doesn’t remember much after that, except the smoke billowing through her home of 18 years.
Like any mother, Aster’s first thought was her children.
“I told them to run,” she says. “We al