Eva Segura, November Student of the Month
Eva Segura was selected as the November Student of the Month. She was born in Mexico
City in 1969 and lived there until 1992. She is the third of eight siblings. She is
a grandmother of a four year old girl Addyson and a two year old boy, Juan. She has
three adult sons Juan, Cesar, and Ricardo and has been happily married for 30 years
to Juan Segura.
She works as a personal care assistant for seniors with dementia and disabilities
and a full-time student. She completed sixth grade in Mexico and started working when
she was 12 or 13 years old as a dishwasher in a small homemade food establishment.
She worked as a babysitter and did domestic chores. At 15 she tried to complete middle
school with no success.
In 1992 her husband, herself, and her three children left their birth place and moved
to Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas, Mexico in search of a stable job and the means to provide
the basic needs of their growing children. At the beginning of January in 1998 her
husband lost his job; after two months of searching for a new job without any success,
savings running low, and the responsibility of feeding three children, desperation
drove them to move to Hot Springs where her brother-in-law lived.
During the last twenty years of living in Hot Springs, Eva volunteered to tutor ESL students
how to read and write English. She has worked as a room attendant at the King's Inn
and Sands motels, providing house cleaning services, and for the last ten years as
a personal care assistant for senior citizens with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and disabilities
in a private setting. Eva completed a training program for Alzheimer’s and dementia
offer by the Schmieding Center for Senior Health & Education in Springdale, Arkansas
in early 2007. In the summer of 2017 she completed a Certified Nurse Assistant program
from UAMS Caregiving-Hot Springs. In 2014 she stopped by the NPC Adult Education Center
and decided to register for the GED program. She received her GED diploma at the end
of August 2016 and in January 2017 Eva began college as a nontraditional student at
NPC becoming the first of her siblings to attend college. At the end of this semester
she will complete the credits required to obtain a Technical Certificate in Accounting.
Currently, in addition to being a full-time student and her work as a caregiver, Eva
helps her husband with their landscaping business by preparing and sending invoices
to customers. On Sundays she loves to spend time with her grandchildren and spoil
them.
