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March 2007
The sun sets over Rusty bucket beach after Mrs. Laura Bush's tour of Sand and Eastern Islands in Midway Atoll Thursday, March 1, 2007. President Bush designated the islands as a national monument June 15, 2006. It is the single largest conservation area created in U.S. history and the largest protected marine area in the world.
The sun sets over Rusty bucket beach after Mrs. Laura Bush's tour of Sand and Eastern Islands in Midway Atoll Thursday, March 1, 2007. President Bush designated the islands as a national monument June 15, 2006. It is the single largest conservation area created in U.S. history and the largest protected marine area in the world.
The sun sets over Rusty bucket beach after Mrs. Laura Bush's tour of Sand and Eastern Islands in Midway Atoll Thursday, March 1, 2007. President Bush designated the islands as a national monument June 15, 2006. It is the single largest conservation area created in U.S. history and the largest protected marine area in the world. Mrs. Laura Bush participates in a discussion at the AlfaSol literacy program Friday, March 9, 2007, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Students who complete the literacy program are eligible to enter Brazil's Youth and Adult Education (YAE) national program, which offers skills training for specific employment opportunities.
Mrs. Laura Bush visits the AlfaSol literacy program Friday, March 9, 2007, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mrs. Laura Bush talks with Mrs. Marisa Leticia da Silva, wife of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil at the Hilton Sao Paulo Morumbi hotel, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, March 9, 2007.
Mrs. Laura Bush visits Projecto Aprendiz Friday, March 9, 2007, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Initiated by Brazilian journalist Gilberto Dimenstein, Projeto Aprendiz assists at-risk youth through educational, sports, cultural and job opportunities within their own neighborhood. Mrs. Laura Bush listens to a musical performance at Projecto Aprendiz Friday, March 9, 2007, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Developing the concept of the neighborhood as a school, the program supplements school education with a wide range of community-based activities. The work carried out by Aprendiz has been recognized by UNICEF as a best practice project to be disseminated worldwide.
Mrs. Laura Bush talks with a little boy at Projecto Aprendiz Friday, March 9, 2007, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush meet President Tabare Vazquez of Uruguay and his wife, Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez at the Main House, Estancia Anchorena, in Colonia, Uruguay, Saturday, March 10, 2007.
Mrs. Laura Bush tours Colonia del Sacramento with Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez, wife of the President of Uruguay in Colonia, Uruguay, Saturday, March 10, 2007. Mrs. Laura Bush tours Escuela de Artes y Oficios with Mrs. Lina Moreno De Uribe, wife of President Uribe of Colombia. Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, March 11, 2007. Mrs. Bush talks to an artist during the tour.
Mrs. Laura Bush participates in a discussion at Camino Seguro (Safe Passage) with Wendy Widmann de Berger in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Sunday, March 11, 2007. The program was founded by an American for children of families working in the Guatemala City garbage dump. Mrs. Laura Bush talks to children at Camino Seguro (Safe Passage) in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Monday, March 12, 2007.
President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush play with a young girl during a visit Monday, March 12, 2007, to the Carlos Emilio Leonardo School in Santata Cruz Balanya, Guatemala. The couple visited a medical readiness and training exercise site at the school. In March, Mrs. Laura Bush traveled with President George W. Bush to Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. During her trip Mrs. Bush highlighted literacy and education programs as well as visiting important cultural sites. In this photograph, members of the Patzun Dance group performs the dance, "La Danza de los Venados," Monday, March 12, 2007, during a visit to Iximche, Guatemala, by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush and President Oscar Berger of Guatemala and his wife, Mrs. Wendy Widmann de Berger.
Mrs. Laura Bush poses with performers Monday, March 12, 2007, after a demonstration of a Mayan Ritual competition in Iximche, Guatemala. President and Mrs. Bush visited three Guatemalan villages during the morning hours before departing for Mexico, the last stop of their five-country, Latin American visit.

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