"HALOE serves as a catalyst between city folk and organizations working hard to salvage and improve the lives of indigenous children, parents, and elderly. Mayan Families reports live news everyday about children who have to walk miles to get to school, and on top of that are pressured intensely by family obligations. Waking up, knowing your struggle, and fighting it takes just that: ambition and love. Whether it be to get the water jug full and carry back three miles or spend three hours to get that paperwork done, there has to be ambition to do it. The fact that you have incentive means you love that something or someone enough to satisfy it. It's what these kids and parents do - it's what anyone fulfilling their role with gratitude and respect does. HALOE is a collective, a message - a calling."

