Youssif

On January 15, 2007, 5-year old Youssif was playing outside of his family’s home in Iraq, when two masked men drove up, doused him with gasoline and set him on fire. Youssif spent two months in an Iraqi hospital as a result of the severe burns that covered his face. But there was little doctors there could do.

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Yulce

In November of 2002, 11-year-old Yulce Daelangi’s life changed forever when the kerosene lamp she was lighting exploded in her face. There was no treatment for Yulce’s burns or medication to ease her excruciating pain on the remote island of Paca in Indonesia, where she lived. When the burns caused her skin to contract, she could no longer close her eyes. Eating and drinking became increasingly difficult.

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Ni Na Phung Thi

In March 2007, 17-year-old Ni Na Phung Thi was approached and asked out on a date by a 21-year-old would-be suitor during her cousin’s birthday party. Ni Na is from the town of Da Nang, Vietnam near the Marble Mountains where the bond of marriage is looked upon as sacred. Aware that her family was opposed to dating, Ni Na refused to go out with the suitor, not wanting to dishonor her parents.

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Dami

In November of 2006, Dami, a 4-year old boy living with his family in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, was horribly burned in an accident at his family’s home. As evening fell, he had asked his uncle to turn on the home’s generator so that he could watch television. As Dami’s uncle poured fuel into the generator he accidentally spilled some on the ground. He called for his nephew to bring a flashlight for better visibility. Dami rushed to comply, but instead of a flashlight, he brought a kerosene lantern.

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