Paul Pearce, CFCA’s international program director, joined several different stretches of the Walk2gether campaign. "I was just recently in Bolivia where I observed one of our former sponsored youths who went into agricultural sciences. He has now led a program of food production within one of the mountain communities...So this is a case of an individual student who now is creating change and creating more food security for an entire community."

That, Pearce says, sums up CFCA’s approach to fighting poverty.

"We really help the individual person or family to go from frankly marginalized to an agent of change in their own situation and in their own family and then of course within the larger community. And we hope through that we are able to build stronger community fabric by people who feel now that they are part of the decision making processes that are affecting their lives."

Successes like that have convinced Hentzen that ending poverty is possible, if people are committed to the cause.

"I see it basically as a very human situation. If we personally can get to a point where we can say, 'I can commit myself to this not from a distance, but in a very personal way. I’m going to live a life style that will be simpler, use less water maybe, be very concerned about others and take care of the environment.'"

Now in Bolivia, Hentzen heads east to Brazil, before returning to the Pacific coast, and the Walk2gether campaign’s final stretch this summer in Chile.