Every Child Counts - Deborah D. Proctor, M.D.

This book's subtitle, "breaking the cycle of poverty by educating one child at a time" summarizes the contents nicely, as this book is both the recounting of the author's work with an orphanage in Costa Rica and her attempts to reconcile a really important question - do our attempts to help others actually help them? How can we best measure success? How can we provide help without disrupting a community? All important things that are easy to overlook or cast aside when we want to feel like we have "done something." And very timely. I enjoyed this book, for both this debate and seeing how it played out in real life over the years in the lives of some of the children.