During medical school I met with a group of classmates to identify the one most impoverished, under-served location on the entire planet. We selected Burkina Faso – at that time called Upper Volta. This nation is located in West Africa in the midst of the Sahara Desert. As a resident physician I worked with SIM for a month in Burkina Faso. What stands out most to me years later is all the children with lumps under their skin. These are the adult filaria parasites, which over time will cause blindness in these hapless children. Now fast forward to Tina Wiebe, a Canadian RN who worked for a year in Burkina Faso. We met last summer when Tina took the INMED International Medicine & Public Health Intensive Course. I’m very happy to hear from Tina today… She’s return to another stent in Burkina, and wrote, “This will be my first venture back since taking the course at INMED last summer. I am so grateful for the opportunity to learn what I did at INMED. Thank you so much. I feel more equipped and ready to serve!”