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What does it take to awake compassion in us?

http://www.msf.org/ "Médecins Sans Frontières is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion, and natural or man-made disasters." These men and women have no political affiliation; they do not seek self-serving publicity, book deals, a reality series... fame, and fortune. For a while, they will give themselves entirely to the unfortunate regardless of race, religion, or gender. Today 2 children are born. Because of circumstances, one will live a life of plenty, and the other a life of struggle; the first run in the suburbs of New York 's manicured lawn and 2-car garage housing community, the other in a village in Sudan . Most of us just heard of Sudan when Darfur ! Yet there, a mother is watching over her child, wondering how she will keep him safe from harm, starvation, and disease. We are so desensitized to poverty, famine, ep...