Today my friend Jane left for Switzerland, where she’ll be for a week before she continues on to Uganda, where she’ll work for a year setting up mobile clinics in the northern part of that country (the part right next to the Sudan). For real. She’s a nurse, and having known her for 19 years, I’m completely confident this is the thing for her to do. I’ve always thought of her as being independent and fearless, and that’s what you have to be to do something this incredible.

The NGO she’s working for is a well-established one that’s very invested in keeping their employees happy and healthy (and, well, alive), so I have high hopes she’ll be able to stick out her contract.

While I personally don’t relish the idea of needing a military escort to get to work, in a lot of ways I envy her — how amazing to have the skills and ability to do something that will actually make a difference (as trite as that sounds).

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