Here’s Some Really Good News: THREE GENERATIONS ATTEND NVCC

by Jessica Carvalho Fernandes, Managing Editor

What happens when three generations of a family, a mother and two daughters, are all attending Naugatuck Valley Community College?

You write a good news story, of course!

44-year-old nursing major Rahab Sousa, 22-year-old nursing major, Brooke Wangari, and a 3-year-old female student of NVCC’s Early Childhood Education laboratory school all frequent NVCC’s Waterbury Campus.

Sousa might be the oldest out of her family to attend NVCC, but she serves as an inspiration for both her daughters. As mentioned, Sousa is a nursing major and according to her daughter Brooke, “what motivated her to go back to school was her passion to become one. She was a nurse back in Kenya also.”

Wangari’s major is also nursing. She says the reason “I’m doing it [nursing as a major] is because I also love helping people out but also because I see the passion my mom has gave me to hope to achieve the same goals as her.” In addition, it is Wangari’s first semester here at NVCC as she has been in the United States only for 5 months.

“It has been a challenge adapting here because of very many cultural differences but I’m adapting very well,” said Wangari.

Wangari has been getting herself involved within the college by joining the dance club,