As part of the launch of SoyVoluntario.com, the Spanish equivalent of MyVolunteerPage.com, we visited some of the projects that are looking for volunteer assistance.

These pictures were taken moments apart at the same one-room school, in a community that is unrecognized by the local government, the electricity is stolen from the lines running down the street and potable water has to be delivered by donkey. Here families displaced by the years of warring factions, carve out their existence and hope for a better life for their children.

Inside the schoolroom, where we met with parents, a mother spoke from the heart of her of how much it hurts her to have brought children in her world there and how desperately she and others want the basics of life for their children. Outside, the children who are oblivious to standard of living outside their own are genuinely thrilled with the presence of visitors and overwhelmed with joy as they get the chance to see their own faces in the screen on my digital camera.