Newly named OHIO Career Ready Campus helps women better their lives with education Published: February 3, 2021 Author: Kim Barlag Kim Barlag In the initial Aspire class in November 2018, Aspire instructors Scott Hatfield and Sally Young help three dedicated women work towards their GED.
Access to education comes easier to some more than others, but the inspiring stories of four women from Southeast Ohio remind us how education is the key to growth, confidence, and success, and that we must never take it for granted.
These women, Brenda, Maria, Lisa and Alicia (whose full names cannot be shared) have with the combination of their own courage and grit, and resources from Ohio University overcome hardship, poverty, abuse, and addiction to further their education and better themselves and their families.