Fighting poverty through seafaring

By Yashika F. Torib

Dec 07, 2022 12:10 am

JEFFREY Acuesta spent years of his childhood working long hours in a fast-food restaurant, cleaning his uncle's car and skipping meals to make enough money for a school where he studied on an empty stomach.

Fourth in a brood of five children, Acuesta was reared in a hard life. By the time he was supposed to enter college, he was told that family finances were already exhausted.

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