- July 28, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Ngoc Ho graduated from the University of Houston in spring 2020, as COVID-19 forced many students and small children to end classroom learning and stay home.
Ho, 29, was unsure about her job prospects coming out of school. She came to Houston after emigrating from Vietnam around 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 started with teaching participants how to run a business, then moved into child development before the age of 5. It helped Ho get her business application approved through the state, which was made more complicated because of COVID-19.
So, less than a year after graduating from the university, she was running her own child care business: Dino Land Academy.
Child care providers are needed, and the pandemic has only made the search…
