Several years ago on a plane flying from Entebbe, Uganda,
to Nairobi, Kenya, I sat next to a young French woman. She told me she was a
medical doctor working with the service organization Doctors Without Borders.
Her particular work was helping children with eye diseases in northern Uganda
near the war zone on the volatile border with Sudan. With “quiet passion” this
French doctor described her commitment to saving African children from being
unnecessarily blind for life. I recalled how inspired I was by her witness when
I heard that Doctors Without Borders had deservedly won the 1999 Nobel Peace
Prize.