Month: February 2020

“My name is Mal Maalin. I attended the College of the Holy Cross as an undergraduate. I took a couple of years off to explore my interest in social justice. I moved to Western Mass and enrolled at UMass Amherst to become a classroom teacher. I lived in the Springfield area for three years before…

  Octavio recently graduated from our Work Ready class. In January, he wrote his story in a Telling Your Story Writing Workshop, designed by Project Place staff and volunteers.    “I was born in a blizzard in 1978, in Cambridge Massachusetts. By age four, I was taken away from my mother, as she had a…