Alberto: Hard work builds a successful business
Alberto Ferrufino was forced to leave El Salvador during the civil war of the 1980s; he eventually settled in Washington DC and after working hard at low-wage jobs for a number of years succeeded in fulfilling the requirements for permanent residency.
In 1993 he took over the ownership of the Don Juan restaurant in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Washington DC and quickly transformed the enterprise into a popular community place. He and his wife run the business together and have tripled it’s numbers of employees in the last ten years. Alberto believes that if more immigrants were given the opportunity – that he was fortunate to have – then the United States would be that much more successful economically.
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