A YEAR after disputed elections brought ethnic violence to Kenya and nine months after a peace deal ended the fighting, tens of thousands of people are still too scared to go home.
Many are living in aid camps. Thousands more have simply disappeared.
Mary Wambui Mwuri (65) and her family of daughters and grandchildren are still refugees in their own country.
They live in a single cramped room, sharing a floor with their hosts, who were strangers until she was forced from her home in the Rift Valley by an angry mob.
"They destroyed everything, stole our cattle and goats, the maize we had planted was burned and our well has gone." At least 1,500 died in clashes that erupted after polls closed on December 27th last year.
Election officials handed President Mwai Kibaki a second term, despite early results that showed Raila Odinga, the opposition leader, building a winning margin.
Official figures suggested more than 300,000 people were forced from their homes.
However, aid agencies believe the real number was double that, with thousands of people like Mary and her family sharing with local families and hidden from sight.
For the past year her family - her two daughters and four grandchildren - have been sharing four rooms with a family of five in Kikuyu.
Last month their simple shelter was torn down by the council. It had been built illegally.
Now home is a one-room corrugated iron shed, which is unbearably hot by day and cold by night.
Anything is better than returning to Burnt Forest, close to Eldoret, scene of some of the worst election violence.
There members of Mary's Kikuyu tribe - the same as Mr Kibaki - were singled out by opposition supporters of the Kalenjin tribe.
"There's fear of future violence," she said.
"They said peace is not prevalent in the area. And how can I go back when everything is destroyed," Mary said.
A peace deal brokered by Kofi Annan ended the violence by installing a grand coalition government. Mr Kibaki stayed on as president and Mr Odinga was made his prime minister.
A commission set up to investigate the role of political parties and government security forces in the violence recommended that a special court be established, aimed at ending a culture of impunity.
Philip Waki, a judge who chaired the commission, said in October he had evidence implicating "big names" in inciting and co-ordinating the violence.
Justice is not coming fast enough for many.
Drive through the Rift Valley and it is not long before the green fields are dotted with the white tents of aid camps.
Some 60,000 people are still living in camps, according to the Kenyan Red Cross. Another 130,000 have simply disappeared, probably sharing a home like Mary's family.
Analysts said the pace of reform stalled when the coalition named a bloated government made up of 92 ministers and assistant ministers.
John Njenga Kirubi, of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, said almost 3,000 displaced people were still living around the town of Kikuyu "The government has not done enough," he said. "Most of the key issues have not been addressed. People can't get compensation unless they go home but why would they go home to a place where their family members were slaughtered?"
Christmas will be tight but Margaret Wambui Mburu, whose tiny home is now hosting an extra family this year, said they will celebrate as best they can. Asking Mary's family to leave, she said, would be impossible. "They are like part of the family now. It would be like asking my mother or father to leave. Anything we have we will share," she said.