Youth On Their Own helps local kids reach their goals through community support This file photo shows a student writing on a desk in a classroom. (Source: Live 5/File) By Lauren Renteria | April 1, 2021 at 5:41 PM MST - Updated April 1 at 6:26 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - For the better part of a decade, Rashel Olalde dreamed of going to college. But when high school came around, she found herself at a roadblock.
Grades weren’t a problem, Olalde was doing well, but with her immediate family living in Mexico, money was tight. Then a teenager at the beginning of her sophomore year, Olalde had moved away from Mexico and in with her aunt and uncle. She enrolled at Tucson High but without the help of her parents, so affording things like clothes and day-to-day items teenagers need became more difficult.