When I started high school, I was exposed to a lot of high risk situations that I didn’t know how to avoid. I made some bad decisions and my path could have been very different. And with these situations, the …
Hatungimana Renath’s family is from the impoverished central African country of Burundi, although she herself was not born in her homeland. Constant civil war forced her parents and their eight children to live in a refugee camp in the Congo …
This year will be my first completed year of high school, after five years and five different high schools. The New America School took me in and gave me a chance when no one else would or could. Because of …
I’m twenty years old and my birthplace is Lima, Peru. I came to The United States almost two years ago with all my family to find work. I left my home, my friends and my university; I knew that my …