I knew a surgeon (white) from Norway who moved to Ethiopia, hoping to make a difference. He was brilliant and thought his skills would help to build a better healthcare system.

Catching up with him much later the one comment I took from the conversation was, "Well things here happen at a much different pace than that of the Western world." He sounded so disheartened that his dream was for nothing. He didn't want to me a white savior, just someone who could put his skills to use for the betterment of mankind. Boy was he wrong.