Samantha Swain

Dozens of barefoot children ran down the trash-lined dirt road to greet the converted bus at the end of its three-hour journey from Guatemala City.

The children’s tattered clothes and the mountains of garbage reflected the poverty-stricken community of San Raymundo.

University nursing students Caitlin Butler and Danielle Shriver looked out the bus window with anticipation, realizing they were about to embark on a mission unlike anything they had ever experienced in the United States.