In the first moments of her kidnapping, Jessica Buchanan's brain seized up, her mind went blank but her body knew. Her experience of terror was physical.
There's no course, no book, no movie that's going to prepare you for something like this... it suddenly hits like a bat... that you're not the exception, you're in the middle of it.
I appreciated the simplicity, too. People would suffer, but were also happy... I felt like my work meant something. It's debatable whether aid workers are helping or not.
When she was kidnapped, she was 480 miles away from Hargeisa, attending staff training in the south of Somalia... it was also 500 metres from a war zone.
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