03/20/2003

While in flight, Mathieu found an orphaned girl, alone and crying. She told him she had seen her mother's throat cut in front of her, and she didn't know where her father was. Mathieu explained to his visitor that she was from the opposition tribe. "But what was I to do? Leave her there? She didn't do anything!" So he and his family took this little girl in, and she lives with them now at a site for internally displaced people (IDPs).