18 FREDERICK, Md. – Motherhood is a challenging and rewarding journey that for many women offers a renewed sense of purpose. Navy Counselor 1st Class Belia Castellon’s journey as a young single mother inspired the daughter of Honduras natives to pursue a good life for her and her son.
Castellon was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, raised in Puerto Cortes, Honduras with her 12 siblings, and eventually returned to the U.S. at 13 to receive an education. By the time she graduated high school at 17, she was pregnant with her son. By the age of 19, she was bouncing between jobs with a one-year-old son, and looking for a way to give her son a better life.