Marie Rose is a single mother and lives in a shack with her two children. When she was four years old she got cerebral palsy and was paralysed in both legs. Since she cannot walk, her father carried her everywhere. Later, however, he was killed during the war and Marie was left alone.

Marie Rose gave birth to her daughter during the war after she was raped by soldiers because she could not walk. She later gave birth to a second daughter. She had to give birth to both children by caesarean section, in very poor sanitary conditions. She fled to Uganda with her children and now lives in Kyaka II refugee camp. She has no relatives other than her two children.

Mary Rose initially lived in a shack that the church used for worship. When the shack fell down, she had no place to live, but later someone left another dwelling and they allowed her to live there.