In May 2018, a 22-year-old undocumented migrant from Mali was walking down a Paris street when he saw a crowd staring up at a four-year-old boy dangling from a fourth-floor balcony. Mamoudou Gassama had every reason to keep his head down and avoid attention. Instead he ran across the road and pulled himself up the outside of the building, balcony to balcony, and lifted the crying child to safety. He later said, “I just climbed up and thank God, God helped me. The more I climbed the more I had the courage to climb up higher.” President Macron gave him a medal for courage and said he would be made a French citizen. Courage grows as you take the next step.
