Marvin Soto

 

Marvin finished his first year of master's classes at Missouri Baptist University in April 2011.  He is working towards an MBA!  Below:  Marvin accompanied his fiancé to France in May 2011 to meet her family!  Here, he poses during a hike in the French Pyrenees!

 

Marvin graduated from Missouri Baptist University on April 28, 2009.   We are so proud of this young man who has overcome great obstacles to accomplish this goal in his life! 

 

Above:  Marvin processes into the auditorium on the night of his graduation, April 28, 2009. 

Below:  Marvin receives his diploma from the president of Missouri Baptist University.  Marvin got a degree in Business Administration. 

 

 

 

Above:  Marvin (left) stands with Oscar in St. Louis, Missouri in June 2008.  Marvin is studying business at Missouri Baptist University.

 

This is the official team photo from Missouri Baptist University's soccer team from the fall of 2006.  Marvin and Oscar are the third and fourth from the left on the front row.  Click here to learn more about Missouri Baptist University!

 

Marvin is learning so many new things as a freshman at Missouri Baptist University!  When he is not practicing on the varsity soccer team and studying for classes, he's opened a barber shop in the bathroom of his dorm!  Here, he takes a few inches off of Tino's hair. 

 

 

Marvin poses with his father Alejandro after the graduation ceremony on November 13, 2004.  Marvin's graduation was an enormous victory in his life!

 

 


Above:  Young Marvin has a heart-to-heart with Project director Michael Miller on the streets of Tegucigalpa.    ~ November, 1993


 

A photo of Marvin (left) taken at a group home where he lived in 1995.


Above:  Growing up!  13 year-old Marvin poses for the camera in a center for street children in Tegucigalpa.  

 ~ July, 1997


Left: Marvin wows an audience at    a human rights forum with a powerful song about street children.

Feb., 2000



Above:  Marvin and his grandmother , who raised him as a small boy, have a joyful reunion at the Micah house on Marvin's sixteenth birthday.         ~ September, 2000

Below:  Marvin celebrates his eighteenth birthday with his grandmother Coronada!         ~ September, 2002



Birthday:  September 21, 1984