When my children were young, a friend invited us to share the experience of going strawberry picking in the Georgia countryside with her and her children. The place was vast, and there was plenty to pick.

Maude is a 32-year-old Central Asian woman who came to our big city with her two small children to join her husband. After arriving, she learned her husband had taken another wife.

We all have experienced occasions when life gets to be too much to handle, and it is tempting to give up.

It wasn’t until Fatim called her mom from the bus station in Dakar that we knew she was safe.