Drs. Horace Smith and Lisa Thornton were visiting children with me in northern Zambia in November 2005 when they spotted a child with a badly burned foot. As doctors they, of course, immediatly began to ask questions about how it happened and what treatment the child was receiving. We had to leave for another appointment and when we arrived at the other village some distance away the local World Vision manager was late. When she arrived she said that she had been notified that a "sponsored child" and had put her staff to work seeing that the child received treatment. Later we traveled to the local clinic and when we arrived we were met by two nurses eager to talk to the doctors about their recommended treatment. I was so impressed by the efforts by so many World Vision staff to intervene on behalf of one child but then that is what sponsorship is all about. I returned to the area one month later and took this picture of the child - able to walk and the foot healed. That's sponsorship for you.