as her career soared in the summer block buster godzilla.ar she joined the avengers franchise. during the making of the movie, she took a trip to nicaragua. it changed her forever. >> i was living in brooklyn at the time and the yoga place i went to was going to have a yoga retreat. and it was -- it was during a break of filming avengers. it was cancelled but i didn't cancel the trip. i'm going to nicaragua. i got the ticket. i'm going to go. >> she traveled alone to a rural village and met two young girls from canada. >> alana and jen are two young women from canada who started a non-profit called the latitude project. they build schoolhouses and libraries. they focus a lot on literacy. they work with communities that need better irrigation systems or just filtration and water at schools, better outhouses for the kids. we went to one school where we refurbished all the desks and handed out very basic things to the kids there. we handed out books and crayons and pens and erasers. and soccer balls. also the parents come and help so it becomes