19 October: Bern - Geneva - Amsterdam

This morning, at the Amnesty Switzerland office, I did a last interview with Celestine. He was busy packing his huge luggage and had such a heavy heart at the thought of leaving... Today he will spend the day in Geneva, meeting UN officials to bring forth once more his message on the plight of the Niger Delta people.

Meeting Celestine has been such an inspiration! I am also feeling a bit lonely now in my office, and humbled by how much one small person can do -he is indeed short :-), and likes to say that he's a small person, even though we all know it to be otherwise.

When I see the kind of messages people left in his book and when I witnessed the kind of attention he got during his presentations, I know his visit will go a long way in making change possible. And what I find powerful is that we all got transformed by the encounter, by the time spent together. (Aurélie)