In Jim Kim’s view, Zanmi Lasante wouldn’t survive without the support of some large foundation or international agency, and it wouldn’t get that support unless it was seen as something like a laboratory for the world, not just as a marvelous anomaly. At times this kind of talk made Farmer testy. “It’s galling,” he told me in the winter of 2002. “It should be enough to humbly serve the poor.”
