![by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI](https://i0.wp.com/rcsocialjusticett.org/2.0/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/leelaramdeen_1.jpg?resize=100%2C125)
“No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.” (Nelson Mandela)
I was driving to Port of Spain on Saturday morning (February 11), when I heard the news on the radio about the gruesome murder of 15-year-old Abiela Adams, a student of the Signal Hill Secondary School in Tobago, who was discovered in a pile of garbage in Courland with her throat slit.