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Guillermina Gutierrez Martinez picked at her cuticles and let out a shaky breath. Her left leg bounced nervously as her right foot nudged the accelerator. She balled up her fist and pushed away a tear, clearing her vision of the road ahead.
Will they think I’m a failure? Will they lie to their friends because they’re ashamed?
Crammed into her 2007 Ford Fusion were remnants of her life in the University of Washington dorms: A king-size grey Mexican blanket, storage containers bursting with winter clothes, a suitcase stuffed with textbooks and a camera. This is what she’d packed two years ago when she left her hometown to chase a college education, the dream of so many first-generation Americans and their parents.
LEWISTONÂ â Lewis-Clark State Collegeâs College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) has been renewed for five years with a grant from the United States Department of Education, college officials have announced.
The LC program was awarded a five-year grant worth $2,279,297 overall with the first year set at $439,487.
The program helps students from qualifying migrant/seasonal farm work backgrounds to enter and succeed in college. CAMP students receive support through tutoring, mentorship, internships, financial aid assistance, and career exploration. CAMP financial aid is only offered during the studentâs first academic year of college, but other academic support areas are available until graduation.
Hispanic graduates share their hardships to pursue higher education
Hispanic graduates share their hardships to pursue higher education By Jennifer Morejon | May 7, 2021 at 6:54 PM EDT - Updated May 10 at 9:22 AM
VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - A program at Valdosta State University is helping children of migrant farmworkers attend college. They are offering financial help and support.
The students are part of the first graduating class from the CAMP program. They’re excited to have their parents see them walk across that stage, something they weren’t able to do themselves. VSU CAMP program graduates. (Source: WALB)
“They had a rough time coming over here and I know it wasn’t easy and it wasn’t easy back home. They wanted us to get an education, something they weren’t able to get,” said Laura Ramirez.
May 3, 2021
By Steve Nakata, Division of Student Affairs
Daniela Carvajal-Macias, a junior pre-law student majoring in Spanish, has been selected for a National High School Equivalency Program/CAMP Association Congressional Internship.
Carvajal-Macias, who is a student in Washington State University’s College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP), will begin her 10-week internship on May 30. She has been assigned to work with Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who has served Arizona’s 3rd congressional district since 2003.
“I am super excited and a little nervous,” Carvajal-Macias said. “I want to learn more about what it is like to work in a congressional office, and I look forward to seeing where this opportunity takes me.”
Cristalina Ramirez remembers going to the fields in East Wenatchee as a young girl and watching her siblings and mother pick seasonal fruit, whether that was pears, apples, asparagus or cherries.
As Ramirez grew older, she eventually helped her mother work by picking cherries at the bottom of the tree. She said growing up in a family of farmworkers and seeing some workers live paycheck to paycheck without an understanding of English, instilled a desire to help others with similar experiences as her own.
Ramirez, senior sociology major with Spanish, comparative ethnic studies and at-risk youth minors, has kept that desire close to her heart throughout her undergraduate studies. Although Ramirez said she has experienced a fair share of uncertainty during college, one thing remained true her love for people.