“I do this work to send a message to ISIS; they took our girls and I can’t hold a gun to protect them, but I can hold a detector and clear the area where they left the remnants of their war,” Fahima said.
Fahima was 18 and in sixth grade when Isis arrived. Her family woke her up early in the morning and told her they had to escape.
“In my family, I have three cousins, two married brothers and a lot of brothers and sisters. I was just thinking; how can we squeeze into a car? People say, you go, I stay. We know Those who stay may die,” she said.
“My sister cried and said she would not go without my father. He said, ‘I promise I will come, but I want you girls and women to go before us. If one of you falls into the In Isha’s hands, that would be worse than them killing me.”
Twelve hours later, as ISIS closed in, her brother escaped in the back of a truck. Her father left the village in the last car.
Fahima did not return home until 2018. When she returns home, she finds her home riddled with booby traps, including an improvised explosive device attached to a box of chocolates. A bloody large knife was left in her bedroom, which she believed was used for beheadings.
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