Immigrant of the Day: Rey Faustino (The Philippines)
Rey Faustino and his family arrived in Los Angeles from the Philippines seeking a better life. As it so often turns out, getting to America was actually the easy part. The Faustinos, now U.S. citizens, were undocumented and spoke little or no English. The family faced a confusing and sometimes overlapping array of social services designed to help immigrants like themselves.
Faustino’s childhood experience and that of other low-income families inspired him to start One Degree, a one-stop website in San Francisco for people to navigate thousands of social service organizations that specialize in everything from health care and job training to education and housing.
For more about Rey Faustino, click here.
KJ
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