To see a hungry kid eating a bowl of rice like it's ice cream -- there's a satisfaction in that, that words can't express.

We'd ship the toys, packages and food ahead of time, and they would prepare things for us.

We did two different services there plus we sent a team to some places of Panama that were eight hours away by boat and then quite a ways by foot, in some of the really hard to reach places.

The money came in a little slower this year than in previous years because of fears of economic downturn, Katrina, high gas prices. It came right down to the wire this year.

We got some toys for $1 apiece. They were really nice cars, battery-operated cars with remote controls, but something was wrong and the remote controls didn't work. The kids can't afford to buy these and they don't have batteries, so it didn't matter to them. They'd pull them by a string or whatever.