A free sandwich can make the difference for some migrant worker children in college
“Gomez-Delgado recalls how help from the university’s College Assistance Migrant Program allowed him to survive. The federal program, created in 1972 to help children of agricultural workers succeed once they get to college, held workshops on how to cook and counseled Gomez-Delgado on how to pick a roommate, how to interact with his professors, and how to apply for a desperately needed part-time job. But most of all, he remembers the free sandwiches.”