Mia Sutphin was a Howard County girl who grew up to live her dream of making a difference in the world. While a freshman at Notre Dame Prep in Towson, she wrote that she wanted to do something to help others -- be a teacher or nurse. She chose nursing. After college, she worked as a high school nurse in Colorado, as a pediatric intensive care nurse at University of Maryland Medical Center, and eventually as a nurse in hospitals, hospices and orphanages in India and Africa. In 2002, she volunteered at Nyumbani Orphanage near Nairobi, Kenya, home to abandoned HIV-infected children. She died of a drug reaction while being treated for malaria at a hospital in Nairobi. She was 27. . . . Her family established a charity in her name, and this weekend is the Mia Sutphin Foundation's annual fundraiser, at Turf Valley. Funds raised will support, among other charities, Nyumbani Orphanage in Kenya. The director of the orphanage will be my noon guest today on Midday, (88.1 FM), WYPR.