I would like to thank the staff at Annick Press for their commitment to bringing important issues such as the ones facing Laiping, Sylvie, and Fiona to the attention of readers worldwide, young, old and in between, and my editors, Pam Robertson and Linda Pruessen, for going into the breach with me once more. Very special thanks to my gentle reader, Ruth Miller, and to Simon Child of the Africa Canada Accountability Coalition, a young man whose intelligence, ethics, and determination are bound to make a difference.

—Elizabeth Stewart