With the situation in Mali getting worse by the day, it is the people who are suffering the most - outside the capital, ordinary people have been reduced to simply surviving, trying to make it one day at a time, subsisting on what the land and their ingineousness can provide. Government, education and services are almost non existent anymore, with the gaps being filled either by the north-bound insurgent forces or, simply, by individuals driven by nothing more than compassion and love for their country. It's a real humanitarian crisis in the making...