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families: The GCU Learning Lounge has
provided free tutoring and mentoring for
more than 1,700 neighborhood students
from kindergarten through 12th grade since
it opened in 2013, and now those inner-city
students can earn scholarships, then pay it
forward by serving in the Learning Lounge
to help the next generation of students
behind them.
Tears of joy … and sorrow
When Fornes’ parents were living in the U.S.,
his mother made money cleaning homes and his
father was a construction worker. In Mexico, he
said, they barely make enough to survive.
“Of course I miss them every day, but I’ve
learned to deal with it so that someday I can
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Tears stream down the
cheeks of Pahoran Fornes
as he struggles to get
through his emotional
speech at the Students
Inspiring Students event.
It was a memorable moment when the first 100 recipients of
full-tuition scholarships in the Students Inspiring Students
program gathered onstage in GCU Arena.