The inspiring true story of how one womanmdashwho People dubbed quotthe saint of Staten Islandquotmdashis changing the world, one child at a time.Fourteen years ago, Elissa Montanti was a lab technician in Staten Island. She had, in the span of only a few years, lost her beloved mother, grandmother, and high school sweetheart. Hoping to find a way past her own troubles and the depression and panic attacks that quietly crippled her, she decided to raise money for school supplies for the children of war-torn Bosnia. But at a meeting with the UN ambassador she learned that those children didnrsquot need pencils. He showed her a photo of a boy who had lost both arms and one leg to a land mine these children needed a lot more.Elissa went to Bosnia, brought the boy and his mother back to Staten Island, and arranged for free prosthetics and medical care.
