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While checking the mail one day in 2000, Fátima de Lourdes Espinoza noticed a piece of paper in her garden. It was a flyer for PCEP.

When Dulce and Luis Galeano-Duarte first learned of AVANCE in 2015, they were looking for a school for the youngest of their three children.

Lucy Krout was at the mall with her young children when they stumbled across a children’s event and someone from AVANCE handed her a flyer for PCEP.

Maria Susana Oyoque was a stay-at-home mom when she learned about PCEP from a friend whose cousin had attended the program in another city.

Karla Rendon was two when her family moved from Mexico to San Antonio. One day, while at Karla’s school, her mother overhead other parents talking about AVANCE.

During the pandemic in 2020, Bileyka Vasquez learned about AVANCE when she came across an ad for virtual PCEP while searching for online classes for her youngest son.

When Griselda Abundis moved from Mexico, she didn’t know much English and felt stuck. Her husband’s family, familiar with San Antonio, recommended that she look into AVANCE.

Aura Camacho registered for virtual PCEP during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 after being introduced to the program by friends at AVANCE-Austin.

Erika Crespo joined PCEP while completing volunteer hours at AVANCE. That was just the start of the Crespo family’s journey.