Little sisters: Hermanitas program mentors Hispanic girls in junior high in Bloomington, Illinois

Posted on: March 9th, 2006
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“BLOOMINGTON - Tension and anticipation filled Bloomington Junior High School’s library recently as each of 15 Hispanic girls waited to meet a woman who might have an impact on her future. Those women were going to be their mentors. Grecia Regalado, 12, a sixth-grader who grew up in Chicago and Mexico, didn’t know what to expect. She hoped her mentor would be good at math.

She, like the others, looked around the room, wondering who her mentor would be. Then she was introduced to Fanny Letona, a native of Peru who works in risk management at State Farm Insurance Cos.”

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