To combat this, the Hope Center offers a reading and writing class twice a week to adults. Guarionex De Los Santos is on staff with the Hope Center, but volunteers his time to teach the literacy classes. He understands better than most the struggles adults face when they don’t know how to read and write. De Los Santos used to work in the streets cleaning shoes until someone came and helped him in a similar way he is now helping his students.
“I am giving by grace what I received by grace,” De Los Santos said. “God has given me more than I deserve, and I know my work is not in vain. I am really sorry we as humans need money to survive because the most beautiful work you
can do is the work that doesn’t need money, so that is what I have been doing in my life, and I am going to keep doing it that way.” His service is reaching people like Dichoso Angomas. Angomas works on the street doing two transportation jobs. With his tricycle, he hauls construction materials and supplies to different locations. When not transporting construction sup- plies, he picks up trash and hauls it out of the community. The work is menial and exhausting. He knows if he could read and write, his odds of finding better employment would increase. Desperate to learn how to read and write, Angomas went [Continued on page 66]
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