- July 2, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Ngoc Ho sings in English and Vietnamese with her young class at Dino Land Academy.
Ngoc Ho graduated from the University of Houston in spring 2020, as COVID-19 forced many students and small children to end in-person instruction and stay home.
The 29-year-old said she was unsure about job prospects coming out of school. She came to Houston after immigrating from Vietnam six years ago.
“After I graduated in the pandemic time, I didn’t know what to do,” Ho said.
When a friend told her about a free child care entrepreneurship program, she decided to enroll.
The program starts with teaching participants how to run a business, then moves into child development up to 5 years old. It then helped Ho get her business application approved through the state, which was a more complicated process because of COVID-19 — departments were closed, and the processes moved online — but less than a year after graduating from university, she was running her…
