As pediatricians, my husband and I have committed our lives to caring for children physically, emotionally and spiritually. We have practiced medicine together for 25 years but after caring for babies with heart defects, children with diabetes, teens with eating disorders and depression, each of us felt that we wanted to do more. But what was that more, we wondered?

We have always loved serving the poor in our town but the truth is, poverty in the U.S. is very different from poverty in third world countries. Our poor have food, televisions, usually a cell phone or two and poor kids can go to school. The poor in third world countries don’t have adequate food, schools or even clothes. As pediatricians, we wondered how we could impact the lives of the poorest of the poor children in areas where no one wanted to go. That’s when we found Food for the Hungry.

Last May, my husband and I along with our 23 year old son stuffed clothes in our back packs and headed to Bolivia to investigate the work of FH. We flew 36 hours to Bolivia then got into a truck that took us 6 hours by dirt road deep…