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rights of farmworkers though community and educational events, job, an adult mentor, college scholarship money and the other
as well as through peaceful demonstrations. I offer my support to support I need to prepare for college.
all workers acting as a translator and interpreter. I hope that these
efforts will improve the working conditions of farmworkers not only Being a tutor in Guadalupe’s afterschool program has impacted
in Immokalee, but across the entire nation. my life tremendously. I have been lucky enough to work with some
students beginning in Kindergarten and seeing them through
I first heard about the Guadalupe Center as a freshman through second grade. I have grown with them and learned from them as
Immokalee High School’s Migrant Center. By this point, I knew they have from me. In Immokalee especially, I know that having a
I wanted to attend college and was so grateful that the Guadalupe good role model can change one’s life. Just as my mentor, Shirl, is a
Center was there to help me. They have supplied me with a paying role model for me, I know that I am a role model for the children I
work with.

My dream for next year and beyond is to attend Columbia
University to study Economics and Political Science. I hope to go
on to Columbia Law School to study civil rights, and then to work
as a civil rights attorney with a firm such as the Southern Poverty
Law Center.

I am incredibly grateful to be part of the Guadalupe Center
program. Their support has been life changing, not only for me, but
for all my nieces and nephews who are now in Guadalupe’s Early
Childhood, afterschool tutoring, and summer programs. I am excited
for the future when I can help others as I have been helped.

For more information on Guadalupe Center’s signature
event Dazzle, January 11, at the

Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples, please call 239.657.7124
or go to www.guadalupecenter.org.

WE Common Wisdom
NEED YOU!
Be kind to people and animals too. Laugh a lot. Just tell the
Help Helps truth. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. Clean
Outreach reach
those in need up your own mess. Wish upon a star. Please your dentist and
in Naples. All floss your teeth. Read a good book – or two (and read to a
donated food,
clothing, furniture, child!). Good health is priority #1. Lend a hand. Give blood. Call
furnishings and your mom and dad, or kids. Take the dog for long walks and
appliances are smile at who you meet. Be a friend. Don’t drink and drive.
given away at no Let art color your life. Be gentle with the earth. Cut the drama
cost to our guests. and don’t go to extremes. Never look back unless you are
We pick up planning to go there. Be thankful.
furniture. Help us
help our own. “I don’t know a perfect person. I only know
flawed people who are still worth loving.”

~John Green, Author

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