Lebanon, September 1982. A young woman, with the fear of death and helplessness in her eyes and amongst the rubble and destruction all around her, approached Dr Ang Swee Chai, a volunteer orthopaedic surgeon from London. She was holding a small baby boy in her arms. She held the baby out towards Swee, begging her to take the boy to save its life from the soldiers and militia. Swee found out later that both mother and baby were killed. Sitting in my office, Swee looks up, her eyes filled with sadness and regret as she describes this heart-breaking encounter in her soft voice and in vivid detail. This experience and that of the Sabra Shatila massacre where hundreds of Palestinian refugees were killed that she witnessed have left an indelible mark on her life and given her purpose, passion and desire to help humanity. As a Christian she feels that this has been her calling.