Immigrant reaps benefits of hard work

CHAMPAIGN – The journey that brought Cristobal Gonzalez to a stage in Krannert Center for the Performing Arts last month, accepting his high school diploma along with nearly 300 classmates, began a world away.

Gonzalez grew up in a small, rural village in the mountains of Guatemala, a place with no electricity, no running water, no means of transportation except for walking or horses. Parents and children worked together on coffee and sugar plantations to put food on the table.

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