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For the past 15 years she has gone above and beyond to serve the students she saw herself in, going as far as creating this vehicle, a non-profit to bring them scholarship opportunities. Despite not being there, her mission, our mission continues. We will continue fundraising and serving financially challenged high school students wherever the need takes her.
Today, we rise for the students of Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers.
Ms. Chavez came from poverty, raised by her immigrant grandmother with little to no resources but these facts would not see her fail. She attended HSFI as a teen and there her story began. She went on to earn a Bachelors Degree and Masters that assisted her in her role as a Career and Technical Education Instructor for 22 years.
Through it all, she never forgot 2 things: The power a safe space can have, containing adults that offer love, instruction, discipline and authenticity which she continues to recreate in every one of her classrooms and how much the absence of money affected her trajectory.
These 2 experiences shape Power of One for All.
Founded in 2017, we have dedicated our time, energy and resources to the students of The High School of Fashion Industries, making supplies possible, such as sewing machines and sewing supplies, as well as scholarship opportunities that assisted senior students with senior dues and lastly scholarships to study abroad in Florence, Italy.
These acts of benevolence were actioned because of Ms. Chavez’s own life story, making our purpose personal.
She was raised in a humble home that could never afford her wants, forcing her to work at the tender age of fourteen. And studying abroad in Florence, Italy was a life changing experience she lived in college which she made possible for over NYC 95 students from HSFI, Truman High and Stuyvesant High.
Today we go back to basics and see our past efforts as achievements because they fulfilled our cause, to alleviate the burden, however small, the absence of money can have.
We hope to continue with your help. We cannot continue to do this without you.
Ms. Chavez would like to thank all of the people that have carried her throughout this devastating time of readjustment.
The recent loss of her grandmother, her anchor and point of reference, added to the hardship but it is in her name, Antonia Carvajal Paulino, that she continues to thrive.
‘Thank you God, to my former students, my family, my HSFI friends for your love. And thank you to #thegaf for loving me, when I couldn’t ‘get up’. ‘ – Ms. Chavez