The Buddhist Peace Fellowship has posted dispatches written by participants in FOR's April 2007 delegation to Colombia.

Read the dispatches here [1]

An excerpt:
We went to a displaced settlement with community leaders and ate a delicious lunch in a cinder block house with a partial roof. Leaders described many of the challenges of their new city life here and the lack of implementation and enforcement of laws guaranteeing displaced people's rights. Hunger and unemployment is much worse in the city for them - one leader described how their rural life had always sustained them, even large families, but in the jungle of concrete that is their new city life, they can barely eat, much less buy the notebooks needed to attend the "free" schools. We were amazed to learn that the poverty we saw there was a "2" on the Colombian stratus system, which ranges from 1 (or 0) to 6. One delegate commented that our perspective on the situation here (because of our working environment, something we've discussed at length) was evident in how livable we felt this dirt-poor settlement was, compared to others we had seen. You know your point of reference is unusual when a cinder block house project with no sources of income and a few tin roofs seems not so bad.