In a 28-year career in humanitarian work, here’s what Sharon Eubank has learned — and wants to share

Years before she embarked on her decadeslong humanitarian career, Sharon Eubank watched her mother knitting pairs of slippers to send to war-torn Sarajevo and asked herself a question that she now says she’s “embarrassed” by: “Is that the best we can do?”

At the time, Bosnia was engulfed in conflict that led to genocide and nearly 2 million people being displaced — a crisis on a massive scale. And Eubank wasn’t sure how, in her words, “homemade slippers from a woman in Utah” were going to help.

Five years later, however, Eubank read an account in The New York Times of a woman living in Sarajevo in a bombed-out, freezing cold building, who was overjoyed to receive a gift — a new pair of socks.

“I felt like I had been living as an animal,” Eubank recalled the woman saying in the article