Catalina Munoz went from selling and parking cars on the streets of Colombia to make money for her family, to nursing school. "I wanted to be a nurse, and I knew an education was the only way to a brighter future. I started taking classes, but I didn't know how to pay for them. Everything was so difficult."

Soon after she started taking classes at Politecnico Internacional, Catalina was accepted into the Bridge to Employment program. "Once that happened," she said, "everything for me and my family began to turn around."