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"They never cease to amaze me!" -Lorenis Nova (about BINcA families)
"They never cease to amaze me!" -Lorenis Nova (about BINcA families)
Please read the story of one of our amazing families.
Meet the Funes Family!
Meet the Funes Family!
This month, we’d like you to meet Kelin Funes and her family. She is a 17 year old rising junior at Boston International High School. She is from El Salvador and has been living in the US for one and a half years with her mother and older brother. Right now, they are living in Hyde Park, Mass. She joined our school last year as a sophomore and became an active member of the school’s debate team. Kelin is now attending the LEAH Knox Scholars Program to learn about biotechnology. This is a 5-week summer online program at the prestigious MIT.
For Kelin, “living in America is still pretty new for me and there are many things that I have to learn and get used to.” The family shared that “this change has been good and at the same time very challenging. One of the biggest problems we’ve faced is the language, we came here without knowing anything of English and that makes it kind of difficult at times to communicate with others. Also, the separation of our family, who had to stay in our home country affected us emotionally, but nowadays with technology it is easy to keep in contact. The hardest time for all of us was when we had to look for a job in a new city without anyone who knew us.” As Kelin summarizes it, “coming to America means leaving your life and everything you know behind and starting a new one from scratch. I am sure that all of us in our community know that feeling!”
We asked Kelin to say something to all BINcA families and especially her mother and older brother. Her message is inspirational and full of hope and gratitude: “If I could say something to my family it would be. All is new, different and hard now, but we are strong and we are not alone and far apart from each other, because we are all together in our way for a better future, with God all is possible.”
We also asked Kelin to describe her experience at BINcA, to which she proudly said, “BINcA, is not just a school. It is a community of diversity with open doors for everyone. BINcA is the place where you can have the feeling of home and at the same time the support to discover what and how you can keep building your future in America.”
We are proud of Kelin and her family. We know that life happens, but we are hopeful that they will continue to build a good future for themselves in this country with our support. We wish them health and happiness, and we hope all BINcA families remember Kelin’s words: “we are all together in our way for a better future.”
For Kelin, “living in America is still pretty new for me and there are many things that I have to learn and get used to.” The family shared that “this change has been good and at the same time very challenging. One of the biggest problems we’ve faced is the language, we came here without knowing anything of English and that makes it kind of difficult at times to communicate with others. Also, the separation of our family, who had to stay in our home country affected us emotionally, but nowadays with technology it is easy to keep in contact. The hardest time for all of us was when we had to look for a job in a new city without anyone who knew us.” As Kelin summarizes it, “coming to America means leaving your life and everything you know behind and starting a new one from scratch. I am sure that all of us in our community know that feeling!”
We asked Kelin to say something to all BINcA families and especially her mother and older brother. Her message is inspirational and full of hope and gratitude: “If I could say something to my family it would be. All is new, different and hard now, but we are strong and we are not alone and far apart from each other, because we are all together in our way for a better future, with God all is possible.”
We also asked Kelin to describe her experience at BINcA, to which she proudly said, “BINcA, is not just a school. It is a community of diversity with open doors for everyone. BINcA is the place where you can have the feeling of home and at the same time the support to discover what and how you can keep building your future in America.”
We are proud of Kelin and her family. We know that life happens, but we are hopeful that they will continue to build a good future for themselves in this country with our support. We wish them health and happiness, and we hope all BINcA families remember Kelin’s words: “we are all together in our way for a better future.”
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