Cambridge College

In 1998, Jatinder Kaur [BA '11] was overworked and overwhelmed. The mother of an infant son at the time, Kaur worked long hours at a Dunkin' Donuts in Everett alongside her husband, Kamal Singh, in order to pay the family's bills. While the young couple took on as many shifts as they possibly could, their combined salaries still weren't enough to make ends meet or cover their son's expensive childcare costs. "It was so hard and I was not making so much money," said Kaur, who moved to the U.S. from India in 1991. "Whatever 1 was making, I was just (using) to pay for childcare." It wasn't until a conversation she had with her son's daycare provider that Kaur thought she might have found a solution to the family's problems.