“Tell us a story,” the children of the Massai nomadic village ask Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah on his return from studying medicine in the United States. Kimeli has only one story and at first, it is almost unbelievable. It is about buildings that touch the sky collapsing into hot melted metal as well as thousands of souls lost, and sadness that burns a hole in Kimeli's heart.
Kimeli was in New York City during the attack on September 11, 2001, and he saw the devastation and the sadness it brought to the people of
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America. He wants to do something for those who suffered, but what can one man do in a small village so many miles away from New York?
To the Massai, cows are sacred. Kimeli decides to offer his only cow and he asks a village elder to bless it.
The village elders want to do much more. But what can their tiny village do to help a great and powerful country so far away?
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