Early in the month of September I was privileged to join CHASE-i’s field teams on the REFLECT study, in Kyaka II Refugee Settlement. It was a great learning experience seeing how these people have adapted to the different lifestyle the pandemic has forced everyone to be living now. During this study we witnessed so many things like how hard life can get for some of the refugees and families because they have so many children and not enough food to feed everyone. Some families suffered separation and gender-based violence, especially the ladies we talked to. I remember talking to children who mostly told me about being physically abused; some girls and boys shared about their sexual abuse experiences. One child reported being sexually abused by her father and that he had started abusing her that very week on Thursday. It was difficult listening to small boys telling you about how much they hated their parents fighting and abusing each other and some told me they want to be better parents in future, which was great to hear – a silver lining in their gloomy circumstances. There was a woman that I spoke to who had just had a miscarriage of her 10^th child in the eighth month. As scary as that is, she had to stand beatings from her husband who left her for another woman and also witchcraft from the same lady. There were many heartbreaking stories!  Working together with the senior research team members, we were able to report on and address these cases with the relevant authorities in the refugee Settlement; although clearly a lot more remains to be done to effectively identify, mitigate, prevent and respond to the different categories of violence we came across.