Success Stories

Before Rick stepped through the doors of Project Read in early 2014, life was at a low. He and his wife lived in poverty in the same old apartment the...

Vinas first became a student in August of 2008, after being referred to Project Read by the Dixon Middle School ESL program. Originally from Laos, Vin...

Born in the desert of Mexico, Javier Rodriguez grew up far away from his parents and extended family, who had settled in the United States when he was...

Nicolas Mandujano, a Project Read graduate, came to the United States from Mexico in 2010. As a young child, Nicolas’s dream was to “learn English.” T...

Anna, a single mother of two young children, was unemployed when she came to Project Read in June of 2014, and living well below the poverty level. Sh...

At an age some might consider too advanced for a new beginning, Irina left her home in western Siberia, without knowing a single word of English, to j...

When Michelline Montfleury left Haiti with her husband and children as a political refugee, she found opportunity and security in the United States. B...

Araceli Juarez left Mexico in 2001 to join her husband who was working in Utah. At that time Araceli had not finished elementary school and knew no En...

At the age of eighteen, Troy Smothers’s greatest academic achievement was reading Green Eggs and Ham. After fighting through illiteracy as an adult, t...