At 14,000 feet above sea leavel, Bolivia boasts the highest capital and international airport in the world. It also holds claim to the highest and deepest lake, Titicaca, sharing borders with neighboring Peru. What it doesn't boast about, however, is one of the highest levels of poverty in the Western hemisphere.

Driven by economic need, many uneducated peasants come into large cities such as LaPaz and Cochabamba looking for work and for ways to improve their lives. Their expectations are dimished to find unemployment, overpopulated cities, straining demands on the infrastructure, crime, theft, and pollution. Shanty towns made of cardboards, reeds and branches have sprung up along highways and city streets. in 1976 the population of Cochabamba was +/- 200,000. Today it exceeds one million. Many children are left alone and are at risk all day long, while parents are away trying to earn a menial living. Many have nowhere to go.

In 2003 VOC founder had the opportunity to join a team of volunters that would build an athletic field, finish off a classroom and outdoor bathroom for a school in the community of Bethel, Cochabamba giving countless children in this community a safe environment and a place to go during the day.