NEW YORK – A passing comment in a hotel hallway at one of the many conferences on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly's annual high-level meetings this past week may have turned into a solution.
A global antipoverty nonprofit executive, recently returned from Zambia, mentioned that a hospital there had just one incubator, warmer and resuscitator for the fifty-some babies born daily.
The conversation could've ended there with an empathetic response. But in this case, leaders of a corporate-nonprofit alliance providing medical equipment to those in need heard the story. And in this case, Children International President Susana Eshleman said help may come by year's end.
“It’s very encouraging and inspiring to be here," she said. "It feels like a shot in the arm sometim