So Fajardo and her sisters had a difficult choice to make. With their father living in the United States and their mother dead, the girls were left to live alone in their house in Olanchito de Yoro. "My little sister and I lived in the house by ourselves and we were threatened. People came and robbed us of everything, I couldn’t sleep because someone would knock on the door late at night. It was the gangs," Fajardo said. "We decided to leave the country because of fear; fear of the gangs and crime, fear that they will kill us." Fajardo, then 20 years old, her two sisters, her brother-in-law, and her two-year-old niece, Adara Camila, left Honduras in July of 2013. They hurtled through Mexico toward the U.S. border, clinging to the top of a train. "Sometimes, we had to sleep in the brush. We couldn't go to the bathroom anywhere that was adequate. We suffered, we heard when they killed people. The people who were killed came alone and didn’t have anyone to pay their voyage. People get on the train and charge a bribe, and if they don’t pay, they get killed," Fajardo said. As women traveling with a small child, the journey was especially dangerous. "The men want to touch your body, but thank God we didn’t suffer that. They respected us, but there are women who suffer sexual abuse," Fajardo said. "[But] the little girl was traumatized whenever she heard the sound of a train. She didn’t want to get on the train, because we had to be on top of the train, under the rain. We had to sleep up there. It hurt our bodies to sleep up on the train, but we had nothing else."