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Immigrant of the Day Wins Award For Scholarship Work

By immigrationprof

NPR reprorts that Catalino Tapia (previous Immigrant of the Day), a Mexican immigrant gardener in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been awarded a $100,000 National Purpose Prize for his work raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to send Latinos attend college. Tapia saved all his money to send his son to college. When his son graduated, he got the idea to create Bay Area Gardeners Foundation to help other Hispanic youth get a college education.

KJ