My thoughts often turn to the men and women who serve at Kalukembe Hospital. Located about 100 miles NE of Lubango, Kalukembe is a typical, low-resource, isolated town on the Angolan savannah. There the disease of poverty are more apparent, and the medical resources are way less than at the Lubango Evangelical Medical Center. During the civil way I lived at Kalukembe Hospital, working along side my Angolan counter parts. When the war escalated, I retreated. But they stayed on… and on… and on…. These are skilled, dedicated Angolan nurse practitioners who could be making multiple times the salary and enjoying the civility of city life. But they persist in the bush, caring for their otherwise inaccessible countrymen. They consciously have chosen a life of modesty and service. I am humbled in their presence!