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Gisela Hurtado and Pedro Cerdan delight in their two-year-old daughter Nicolle. She runs around their small apartment in Shaw, juice box in hand, climbing in and out of her dad’s lap as her parents talk about saving for her future. |
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When Jian Zheng started high school in 2002, he faced the same anxieties and unknowns as any new student, magnified by the fact that he and his family had just moved to DC from China a few weeks before, and he knew little English. |
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After college, Nekia Walker moved to DC to become an InnKeeper for Samaritan Inns. This experience underscored for Nekia the appeal and value of living in your own home, so she's saving for one with an IDA. |
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Even in elementary school, Joey Betts was a businessman —earning money by walking kids to school, babysitting, and doing odd jobs at the barbershop and Chinese restaurant in his neighborhood. |
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Jalal Naeem was listening to the radio when the announcer asked a trivia question about poet Amiri Baraka. Jalal called the station, answered correctly, and won two tickets to a play at the University of the District of Columbia. Next thing he knew, Jalal had enrolled there as a student, returning to higher education at age 51. |
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Jennie Huffman is a life-long learner. A 57-year-old mother of three and grandmother of eight, she recently enrolled in the University of the District of Columbia to earn a degree in business management, but taking classes is nothing new to Jennie. |
Like all mothers, Blanquet Morgan wants a better life for her children. “Where I’m living I’m not comfortable,”
Blanquet says of her transitional apartment in a low-income housing
development on Georgia Avenue. “I would like better living
conditions for me and my two children. This is not such a pleasant
neighborhood. My kids want to move too. At 10 and 14, they need
privacy. Now they have to share a room. |
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As she’s shopping for her first home, Ingrid Drake has a closer eye on the potential of the backyard than the house. “I want room for a laundry line in the backyard,” she says. “Global warming has knocked everyone’s socks off. I want to create a home that’s as environmentally friendly as possible in terms of composting, rainwater collection, and that sort of thing. Someday maybe I’ll have money to put in solar panels.” |
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Suhey Dominguez doesn’t give up. During high school she lived in a group home and after 11th grade she left school. She’s been on her own since age 17. Now, at 23, Suhey has earned her GED and graduated from the Latin American Youth Center’s YouthBuild program. She's saving in an IDA to pay her education expenses at Prince George’s Community College. |
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Tajuan Farmer knows that a little goes a long way. Saving just $4 a pay period for the past few years, he has accumulated enough money to buy several savings bonds for his five-year-old niece and nephew to help them go to college some day. It’s that attitude of steady, systematic saving that has enabled Tajuan Farmer to make progress on his dream of homeownership. |
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When you’re working as a translator on a contract basis, Bienvenu Akpakla says, you don’t get paid unless they have a job for you. “They can’t pay you because you’re beautiful,” he says. So, to eliminate the economic uncertainty that comes from working for others, Bienvenu launched his own language-based business, Global Language Enterprises. |
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Karen Davis wanted to enroll in the MDA program to help her then-fiance, Prince Davis, pay for school. Davis had returned from two tours of duty in Iraq with the Marines and had just begun studying for his undergraduate degree in health care administration from Howard University when the couple connected with CAAB. | |
Susan Anderson’s saving strategy was simple: found money was money to save. When she worked overtime and received a check for her overtime pay, she deposited into her CAAB Individual Development Account. |
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Saving for a home with her husband Theatrice in the MDA program, Constance enjoys working with the supportive staff at CAAB. “They want you to succeed…and I love them for that,” she said. “They care that much.” |
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Tarik Cranston and Nicole Cheek are already moving toward financial success as an engaged couple with the recent purchase of their first home. To help them stay on track, the couple took advantage of the supports available through DC Saves and attended CAAB’s Money Management 101 classes. |
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