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.

From the age of five, Vero lived alone in the central plaza of Guadalajara, Mexico. She tells of finding a big tree in the plaza that she made into a little resting place to get out of the blazing sun.