Yet we don’t want to watch people starving. It is dismaying that there is suffering for lack of investment in poor countries when money is available and all that is needed is organisation and drive. For most of us in the west, violent death, chronic hunger and denial of our rights is nearly unimaginable – and yet we feel that we are partly responsible when other people have to face these things in countries where we once ruled, or where we have 'intervened.’ We don’t want to turn our backs. The one thing we can say for sure about the workers who go and face poverty, war and distress on our behalf – whatever may inspire them – is that they are very, very brave.