Ten thousand children, including now doctors, lawyers and civil servants, and half the members of the Bogota Symphony, have been helped off the streets of Bogota, Columbia through a 15-year-old program run by Father Xavier, a Catholic priest from Italy. From the dark and dangerous urban streets to the stunning beauty of the Amazon basin, a four-phase program enables children to move from street life to daily shelter and stability, to receive education - high school diplomas and vocational training - and, in the final phase of the program, to return to their agrarian roots in a self-sufficient 1,000 home community and begin to build a new life.
