began back in 1996 when a friend asked her to raise money to buy school supplies for kids in war-torn bosniaed to a meeting with the bosnian ambassador to the u.n. >> and he said to me, "you know, quite frankly, we have much stronger needs right now than pencil cases." he reached in his drawer, and he handed me this letter that this boy had written to him asking for help: two new arms and a leg. and i saw his picture, and that's really when my whole life started to change. >> she brought that boy to the u.s. for treatment. kenan malkic now helps elissa run her tiny charity with a mighty name. she calls it "the global medical relief fund." global medical relief sounds really big. >> it's big in the sense that we reach out to the world, but it's small in that it's really me. >> maybe you should call it "one little lady in staten island." >> [laughs] >> she runs global medical relief out of her home with a computer and a phone. >> my office is my former walk-in closet, and i added a window, and it works. and i speak to the world right out of my walk-in closet. >> the 112 children that you've he

torn to pieces. >> governor clinton, one minute. >> i agree that we cannot commit ground forces to become involved in the quagmire of bosnia or in the tribal wars of somalia. but i think that it's important to recognize that there are things that can be done short of that, and that we do have interests there. there are, after all, 2 million refugees now because of the problems in what was yugoslavia, the largest number since world war ii, and there may be hundreds of thousands of people who will starve or freeze to death in this winter. the united states should try to work with its allies and stop it. i urged the president to support this air cover, and he did--and i applaud that. i applaud the no-fly zone, and i know that he's going back to the united nations to try to get authority to enforce it. i think we should stiffen the embargo on the belgrade government, and i think we have to consider whether or not we should lift the arms embargo now on the bosnians, since they are in no way in a fair fight with a heavily armed opponent bent on ethnic cleansing. we can't get involved in the quagmire, but we must do what we can. >> all right, moving o