CREW Employee Spotlight!

CREW is beginning a new segment of the Employee Spotlight, we are starting with one of the two employees who have worked for us the longest!

Laisa Vega was born in Fresno, California. She is a 24 year old Mexican female, who has lived in Clewiston Florida for half of her life here in Clewiston. She is the mother of one beautiful 3 year old girl, the wife of a Sugar Mill Worker, who she's been married to for 4 years. All of her wonderful and supportive family live locally here in Clewiston. Laisa is an active member of the Pentecostal Church of God in Clewiston and volunteers for church activities regularly. She speaks fluent Spanish and English. She stopped going to High School in her Senior year due to problems with summer school, but understanding the importance of education, just this week received her GED. Prior to working at CREW she worked odd temporary jobs, the most recent one she lost due to the store, Price Cutters, being destroyed by Hurricane Wilma. So how fitting she would come bless us with her skills. According to Laisa, CREW was her first "real job" and she has worked with us for 2 years since we began after Hurricane Wilma. She was one of the first employees hired under a Workforce Development Grant. Her salary is now paid for by grants from the United Methodist Committee on Relief and Volunteer Florida Foundation. She reports that her job at CREW has helped her a lot, it gave her self-confidence and helped teach her valuable life skills and she believes it helped her to pass her GED! We are so excited to hear she passed her test, she will be receiving her GED diploma in the mail, look for pictures of her with her diploma here!