Gunshots cracked across the sky and news spread: Boko Haram are coming.

Twenty-year-old Ayuba ran for his life. The next morning, returning to his home in northeast Nigeria, he saw three bodies on the ground. One was his father. “I dropped to my knees and prayed,” said Ayuba.

I dropped to my knees and prayed

But persecution didn’t end there.

A few weeks after the attack, Boko Haram sent a list of people they were coming to kill,” said Ayuba. “My name was on it.”

For the second time, Ayuba fled. He’s now receiving trauma healing and care at the Open Doors trauma centre in Nigeria.