Jennifer Tierney’s presentation on Doctors Without Borders last Friday shed valuable light on international relief efforts in Haiti and other third-world and extremely poor countries.

Tierney is the US Development Director of Doctors Without Borders. In her presentation, Tierney said that Doctors Without Borders has performed 28,251 surgeries in Haiti alone as of February 18.

Doctors Without Borders, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, serves 60 different countries,...