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An exit

The poor Zainab was aware that the decision she had made was not really possible. How would a 5 year old trip alone on the plane alone? And to make things even more difficult, the flight was not a direct flight but the one with connections, with several layers.

At the airport

Zainab has reached the airport with Maya and she could only think of something possible, to find a chaperone. She hoped someone would agree on the Mayan escort abroad. She started asking people at random who were at the airport if they could help him.

No chance

Nobody wanted to take the chance and take Maya. Zainab was struggling to find a nice person, everyone had an excuse or the other to do. But she was not going to give up and went to the door agent.

A stranger

The gate agent pointed to a man who stood in the waiting area and also flew to the United States. Zainab told The Huffington Post in 2018 that the agent reportedly reported: "Well, you know that this white type there is to travel."

Ask for help

Zainab Sesay ran to the man and explained his situation. She said, "I went to him to ask him the most senseless question that anyone could possibly ask." The man pretended to listen to Zainab very carefully, but it really seemed lost.

Excuse

He told Zainab that "he was in no mental state to travel with a minor because he had just lost his grandmother". He had come to the airport and returned to the United States to attend his grandmother's funeral.

Change of mind

After Zainab had heard his answer and turned to move away, she heard her remind her. He thought of something and immediately accepted to take Maya with him and to be his chaperone. Zainab could not believe his luck.

Bye

Zainab gave Maya's hand in the hand of the man and told him to be obedient. She enchore goodbye and went to the other corner of the airport as she watched the plane take off. This could be his last goodbye to her daughter only.

Lost

It was only after the plane had taken that Zainab realized she had not even asked for the name of the person under the supervision of which she had sent her daughter abroad. She was so tense and busy in his own reflections on the health of Maya that she had forgotten something as basic as well.

Realization

"Suddenly, the type of adrenaline is gone and I realized". Oh, my God, I just put my only child to a complete stranger, "said Sesay at Huffington post Had she taken the good decision or would she regret it for the rest of his life?

The trip

Maya, on the other hand, went with the man. She sat on the plane and going to be on a journey of 8941 kilometers on a stranger she had never even seen before. The cabin crew has learned that it had agreed to keep the girl, and they helped him in his efforts to make the girl comfortable. But the man had other plans.

Hard time

In the crew cabin, it seemed that Maya had a difficult time during his flight to the United States. She looked like she was in the midst of chaos and cried a lot. Everyone around her tried to calm her, but in vain. What had so Maya Cry?

Singing

The man had tried to calm Maya with all the ways he could have possibly known because he could see that the eyes of all the passengers were on him and Maya. He even sang a song to Kreyo, who was the local Maya language in Africa. But Maya was a cry and cry 5 years.

Destination

The man and Maya finally reached the Dulles International Airport, on the outskirts of Washington, DC Zainab had a word with her mother who lived near Washington, DC and said that Maya would reach home.

Grandmother

The grandmother of Maya led to excitement airport to meet his granddaughter. When Maya saw her grandmother, she ran to her and hugged closed. Something is wrong? Maya certainly did not look happy.

To recover

A month after Maya had come from Africa, Zainab also returned. She asked her daughter all about the man, but Maya did not speak much. And Zainab does not force since she was a small child.

no identity

As the days passed, the urge to find that Zainab was the chaperone increased. She really wanted to know, but had no idea of ​​leaving. His identity had become a mystery and it was impossible to find. Up to…

A connection

One day, Zainab told the story of man and Maya to a cousin of her. It turned out that his cousin had already heard a similar type of story of a colleague from her. Sesay told the Huffington Post, "[my cousin] said," Hey, Zainab, have you ever found Tom Perriello? "And I said," Who is it? "

Revelation

The cousin Zainab Sesay then revealed that Tom Perriello was "the guy who brought you said Maya back. Remind you? I told you he is a colleague of a colleague." After 15 long years, Zainab had finally known the name of the kind man who had taken care of her daughter.

Contact

The cousin gave the coordinates of Zainab Zainab Perriello and immediately sent a long letter, explaining and giving every detail of the meeting with him at the airport. And before pushing "send", she wrote an apology in case Tom Perriello was not the person taking care of Maya.

Answer

Sesay received a response a few days after sending the letter to Perriello. He confirmed that the letter was the same guy who was accompanied by Maya from Africa to the United States in 2003. And as Zainab read the letter, she said: "I jumped my seat. "

The man

For 15 years of its kind for Zainab and Maya, Perriello had followed a great and successful career. It was part of the policy as well as public services. He had led the advocacy efforts of the Center for American Progress, served in Congress for Virginia and worked under the Obama administration as a special State Department qu'envoyage.

2003

When Zainab and Maya had met Perriello in 2003, he worked for the United Nations as a spokesperson and advisor. And he was in Sierra Leone because he had to participate in a tribunal of war crimes.

Dual problem

Thus, when Zainab and Maya had met Perriielli, he was not just traumatized because of the death of his grandmother but was also occupied by the tensions of work. But he had always agreed to take the girl with him.