Amanda Lindout is a Canadian humanitarian and former journalist. She was kidnapped along with some of her partners by Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia. She was held for over 15 months!
The abductors were teenage insurgents from the Hizbul Islam fundamentalist group, and they demanded 2.5 million dollars for Amanda and the rest of her crew. After 460 days as a hostage her family paid the ransom and later on Amanda was hospitalized for two weeks and treated for acute malnourishment.
Once she got back to North America she studied Development Leadership at the COADY International Institute and later on founded the Global Enrichment Foundation to create more opportunities in Somalia by offering university scholarships to Woman!
And not only that! On August 2011, Lindhout went back to Somalia, leading a large convoy carrying food aid for 14,000 people! When asked why she did this she described it as “an opportunity for me to look at that fear and maybe let it go, this fear that I have been carrying around with me for some time”.
So next time you are not willing to forgive someone you love remember that there are people like Amanda forgiving people that don’t even deserve it.