In this post, we celebrate these ordinary people who, under dire circumstances, became heroes. This includes the determined mother and father who would do anything to protect their child, the solider who risks his life to protect his fellow comrades, and the good Samaritan who goes beyond the call of duty to rescue absolute strangers.
Above, Internally Displaced People leave Kibati heading north from the city to their villages, Kibumba and Rugari, north of the provincial capital of Goma, Congo, on November 2, 2008. Several thousand people displaced in the fighting between rebels and government troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo began returning home Sunday as a ceasefire held, an AFP correspondent on the scene reported.
