Roughly two years later, she and her sister made it to Hong Kong where Mui lived in a refugee camp for five years. In , the Hong Kong government declared that Mui and other refugees had to return to Vietnam.
In this position, she was able to save money and send it back to family and friends in Vietnam. She also made an effort to learn English, and through her sister, she met a man in who helped teach her. Unfortunately, after working steadily for 12 years, in Mui lost her job. Having seen signs at the unemployment office for GED classes and National External Diploma Programs, she realized that she might find a better job if she could get a high school credential.
Mui started her studies at Academy of Hope in In , Mui took a job as a cleaner at Georgetown University. Working from 5pm — 10pm seven days a week, she attended class during the day. When in she switched to the am — pm shift five days a week, she continued her NEDP course online and through weekly meetings with her tutor. She also got help on breaks from many Georgetown students who showed her how to use her new lightweight computer.
She learned much from them, including how to create bar graphs and pie charts, and she is proud to have taught these skills to her tutor! In September —eight years after she started her education journey at AoH—Mui completed the National External Diploma Program and earned her high school diploma!
Three years later, Mui is still employed at Georgetown University. She has been repeatedly offered. I want bigger things in my life. I want to do more. I want to learn more stuff. Originally from El Salvador, Yeny was raised by her grandparents, neither of whom knew how to read or write.
I started going to school at seven because my aunt came to get me and took me to the city. I had to go to the city because I was in a small town. I grew up on a farm, so we had to take care of a lot of animals. You have to do it all the time. After just a few years in school, Yeny left in the ninth grade to move to the United States. I worked in restaurants. In the back of the kitchen, I did a lot of hard work washing dishes, rolling silverware, line cook, prepping food…but I started to like it because I started to learn English.
Learning is so important. No one can take that away from you. Yeny says she wants to earn her high school diploma and then go back to work. Yeny says that coming to AoH has opened her mind to new opportunities. I want to learn more stuff…without school, you get stuck in your routine.
I wish that someone would have told me that learning is the dream. If you learn and you stay in school, you will be successful no matter where you are. Yeny notes that it took some time, but her grandfather learned a similar lesson. He finally got it at the end. He finally saw that if we could have learned back home, we could have had a good life there. It was not necessary for us to come to America to have a good life.
If we could have stayed home and stayed in school, we could have had what we needed. But I had been teaching English already…teaching writing was my specialty.
She was a high school teacher by trade herself and came from a family of teachers. It seemed like many of the students were going through the motions—just trying to get a good grade—and some of them just want to meet the requirements. Adult students seemed to be more goal-oriented. They were my peers in many ways, and I really enjoyed that much of the school was about friendship. It was about getting to know each other. Encouragement seemed to be one of the main goals of the school, and the students were a tremendous encouragement to me.
It was through her participation in this group that Marja met Linda Brown. She was truly a co-founder of Academy of Hope. Her presence really encouraged everybody—other students and us. Otherwise, 18 months of having people drifting in and out would have been really hard.
But having one student who really focused—and we knew she was going to get there—that made a big difference for us. Finally, after a year and a half of diligent studying, Linda passed the GED, and Academy of Hope celebrated its first graduate!
Everybody brought food. It was a full dinner. It was very festive! By then, we had 19 students, but it took us a while to have our first graduate. Marja and Linda continued to stay in touch after graduation. She started missing nursing, though, so she returned to that. She later got married and bought a house with her husband. Shortly after Linda graduated, Gayle stepped away from Academy of Hope. She felt like that was enough encouragement for me.
It was still a shock, but it worked out. We got a lot of interest right after our first graduation and immediately started an evening program. Marja continued to serve as a volunteer for four years before she started receiving a salary.
She served on staff through a number of important transitions for AoH, including site and staffing changes, new executive directors, and the opening of an additional campus in Ward 8. Finally, Marja decided to retire in —twenty five years after those first classes in the church basement. Of course—in true Marja style—even in retirement, Marja remained a dedicated volunteer and tutor. She still visits AoH at least once a week. I feel so grateful.
I was just there at the very beginning to get it started, so I feel very grateful. I just wanted to show that good things can happen any place. I want us to always go deeper and not just wider.
He left Ballou High School in while in the eleventh grade because of the environment there and the surrounding neighborhoods. He started classes that spring only to have to take a break a few months later due to personal issues. Two years later, AoH reached out to Antonio to encourage him to try again, and this time he was able to stay the course.
He credits both the teachers and students for his success at AoH. Even though people are moving at different paces, they make sure everyone is learning. Shortly after Antonio re-enrolled, AoH launched new career academies focused on connecting learners to three high-demand industries: hospitality, healthcare and office administration. Everyone was saying it was a good program, and one of the teachers, Rustin Moore, was a general manager at Hyatt, so if you did well, you might get a job with him.
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