Success Story: Felipe is the first and only member of his family to have an education and he was born with a disability in his hand where such things as writing were challenging for him growing up.
Felipe briefly went to school when he was 10 years old but had to leave it to help his family economically. When Felipe was around 18 years old, he met Abraham, our lead teacher, and restarted his first grade year, following an 'accelerated' elementary school program. This was before the Friendship School and Abraham taught Felipe wherever her could: under a tree, in the church down the street, or in his ...
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