When the conflict broke out, seventeen-year-old Shukuru Ndagije followed the soldiers to the north. He ended up in the town of Béni, which was where he heard about the family reunification programme. When he returned home, his mother had gone to Uganda to look for him. His aunt, Gaudencia Nzamfurundi, was there to meet him: “I felt as overjoyed as when my children were born.” As for Shukuru, he had only one thing in mind - "going back to school."