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The astounding account of 1 girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative. As a child in a tiny rural town in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara resided peacefully encircled by relatives and buddies. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant be concerned. But when 12-year-old Mariatu lay out for a neighboring town, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel military, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal function of senseless violence, they take off both of her hands. Stumbling through the countryside, Mariatu miraculously survived. The special taste of the mango, her first food after the strike, reaffirmed her desire to live, however the problem of clutching the fruit in her bloodied forearms reinforced the grim new fact that stood before her. With no parents or living adult to support her and residing in a refugee camp, she turned to begging in the roadways of Freetown.In such a gripping and heartbreaking true account, Mariatu stocks with readers the facts of the brutal strike, its aftermath, and her eventual arrival in Toronto. There, she started out to pull together the bits of her cracked life with courage, amazing resilience and hope.
