When I went inside there were three children lying on sheets on the dirt floor. I examined them and found two to have malaria, with the third suffering from a common problem of the region known as leishmaniasis.
We don't solve all the problems when we go, nor do we come close to doing so. But for each person we touch, each child we cure of malaria, it matters.
The Janjaweed are not poorly organized bands of renegades who swoop into villages at random. They are well-trained, well-equipped fighting forces that enjoy the overt support of the Sudanese government.
I grabbed his wrist. I don’t know why, I just did. It was a reflex, or a conditioned response, or something. Seeing a woman struck triggered a reaction for which I was unprepared. But the moment I grabbed his...
The trip back to the bungalow, driving with no headlights in the dark on a dirt road through the African bush, I knew we’d done some good, but there was so much more that must be done. We would...