Cabin John Middle School, Bethesda, Maryland

"I learned how much trouble people have in Colombia, also I really enjoyed how kids showed us what is important to them."
-Henry Jin

"The picture that most impacted me was the picture of the little girl playing dead. It showed me how it was to be in a place with war and war exposed to children."
-Benjamin Heiber

"What I learned the most was that I should not take things that I have for granted. For example, school. I never realized that kids would want to go to school."
-Michael Diskin

Emails to AjA Team Member Alex Fattal:

"For those of us that live abroad it’s refreshing to read positive news of this type."
Alberto Lopez
West Palm Beach . Fla

"I feel very fortunate in living here in US, but my heart has stayed in Bogotá, from where I left almost 7 years ago…the tough situation faced by innumerable children in Bogotá who live in precarious conditions has not been publicized as it should, but I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your efforts in their behalf. These are children who deal with situations that no child should, such as that young one who said that his uncle was killed by refusing to be part of the guerrilla struggle, and the kid did not know where to go from there. Perhaps your efforts in creating awareness of this social problem will positively influence others in the future."
Daniel Sanabria
DSanabria@pmkgroup.com
Cranford, NJ USA June 21, 2002

"We Colombians who in one way or another have been displaced by the violence in Colombia, appreciate that you have experienced first hand the cruel reality that millions of displaced people live, send a copy of this material to president George W Bush, so the immigration courts can know the truth about our conflict. "
MIGUEL ANGEL RAMIREZ
2563 CONGRESS AV
LAS VEGAS NEVADA 89121

"(DCP) truly impacted me, it’s cool to facilitate spaces to express feelings, especially in these children, to build dreams and to project to the rest of society the reality they live."
Andrea Liliana Guana Vásquez

"I tell you that the show is going very well, it’s been highly visited and has received lots of positive comments and many people are interested. I will try to help so that the project can continue in its path, because from the heart I believe that things like this are too important and help life to continue to triumph."
NATHALIA ELORZA

"It makes me happy to see the final result and I have to confess that I cried while I looked at the photos."
Angela

Hello Alex. I am living in Tampa as a Fulbright student at the University of South Florida in a Master Degree program. I have seen your pictures and believe me I was touched for the Colombian situation. Most of the people that I know in Colombia, even my family, comes in some extent from violent displacement process. So, your pictures took me back to some of the situations that I have known. My reality sometimes is too far from the reality that the children depict in the pictures, I have almost forget it.
Congratulations, nice job. You have given to some of the Colombian's children good reasons for dreaming about a different and more prosperous future.
Francisco Ruiz-Brand