Nafula Joyce 92 years old Busia District At the age of 92, Nafula Joyce radiates the joy of a child when she sees visitors in her compound. Although she’s unable to motion us to take a seat, she walks hastily in our direction with a welcoming smile. You can hardly tell what she is saying because she keeps mumbling whilst picking and biting her fingernails. Were Samson, her nephew, is around to take us through her story. He narrates that initially, when they told Joyce to go for National ID registration, she told them that she is unable to move from her place to the sub-county headquarters. However, Samson wouldn’t have any of it—he went to the subcounty to make inquiries. In his words: When I reached the sub county, they said that I need to have a birth certificate, marriage certificate, or baptism card. But I told the CDO that this aunt of mine was born when I wasn’t on this earth, so I don’t know where I can get those documents. All her parents died; her father passed on in 1979 and the mother in 1986. Those are the people who could be knowing or having those things. So it became very hard for me. The chairman of this village even came and asked us whether we can produce any document so that we register her to get money for the elderly. I told him that I have nowhere to start from. Even when they asked for the cards from the Electoral Commission, my aunt is not registered—so I had no document to produce. We don’t know how we can help her. 34 Chased Away and Left to Die