We're on vacation for a couple of weeks and internet will be intermittent, so I'm offering up some older posts I hope you'll enjoy. This one's from November, 2007.
See this man? His name is Catalino Tapia. He's a 63-year-old gardener. He lives in Redwood City, CA and works maintaining trees and gardens in San Francisco.
He's also a philanthropist. Read about him here:
"Catalino Tapia [came] from Mexico ... 40 years ago with a sixth-grade education and only $6 ... He became a legal resident and raised a family by working in a donut shop, a machine shop and then plant nurseries, before starting his own gardening business...
Tapia ... always had his eyes on the future…Even before his first child was born ... he was saving money for them to go to school.
Tapia's youngest son attended UCLA and then ... the University of California - Berkeley Law School. He's now a lawyer in Los Angeles...
Tapia wanted to do something to help the less-fortunate children in his community ... His son suggested Tapia start a foundation that would give scholarships to students ...








