Olga’s New World

Just blocks away from Christopher Columbus’ house in Santo Domingo in the Domincan Republic, Olga Vargas is exploring her own new world of economic opportunity. For a poor single mom, her dream of sending her son to college was as visionary, and as difficult to imagine, as sailing off on uncharted seas and discovering another country. Olga struggled for years, earning just enough money from her home beauty salon to send her son to the ... Read more »