Chasing Maine: The Graduation Dream

Fabiola Jenson and Fartun Hirsi got here to the U.S. from Rwanda and Somalia in 2014. Nearly eight years later, they’ve graduated from the Faculty of Nursing on the College of Southern Maine.

Final yr, Chasing Maine featured their tales in “The Indomitable Spirit.” Now, we return for his or her faculty commencement — to rejoice their tough journey of success and the indomitable spirit they summoned to attain their desires.

“Once I was amongst with different college students, I used to be feeling like my dream grew to become actuality,” Hirsi stated of the graduation ceremony. “My coronary heart was stuffed with pleasure and glad.”

The journey to commencement didn’t come with out sacrifice, as the 2 nursing college students clarify within the beneath video.

“When there isn’t any ache, there isn’t any acquire.”

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