Imagine, even the fact we are interviewing Mary at the RUPP in this college exclusive to 1% of the population. Mary comes from a family of illiterate parents to 10 children trying to live off earnings from a small plot of land that was further reduced in size and earning capacity in order to pay medical expensesfor their 2nd child, a boy. The family resources were further reduced when the oldest son left for Thailand, took a wife of his own and we assume, began fending for his own family. It is certain that only an external and multifaceted intervention of the GATE, GATEways and STREAM programs taking her from Grade 9 through HS graduation to complete her University degree.

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