Julia Roberts

In May of 2013, Guatemala welcomed Furman’s Global Sustainability May Experience Class. The trip offered us the chance to relax occasionally (tropical hot springs, anyone?) but more often work hard (moving boulders). It led to beautiful friendships as well as shattering realizations. No member of our team returned to the United States unchanged.

If we truly desire an America where success is the rule and not the exception, then we have to address the futures of impoverished children and their families. Equality of opportunity is not a phrase that we can take lightly, and should operate as a central goal of political policy.