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56 people are interested
Teach a Refugee English and Change a Life!
ORGANIZATION: No One Left Behind
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56 people are interested
No One Left Behind is seeking English Instructors (English as a Second Language) for the San Francisco East Bay Chapter
No One Left Behind serves Afghan combat interpreters and combat support personnel who were promised asylum in the U. S. after serving in the Afghan war. Today, they are being forced to leave their homes in Afghanistan due to real threats by the Islamic State and Taliban for working for the US military. These refugees, who risked their lives and those of their families for our troops, arrive each week in the US unemployed with few funds and no household goods. Our mission is to provide them with the support to start a successful life in the US.
Our first priority is to provide a tutor to those women who are isolated in their homes with small children who are not able to attend English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. Second priority is those who really want to learn and practice English to get jobs to support their families. Some public ESL classes only provide 6 hours a week of English, which for highly-motivated women is not enough.
ESL instructors set their own schedules to meet with their families. You will meet with your student (usually a woman) in their home at least twice monthly and may choose to tutor two adults at a time. If there are less-than-school age children in the home, a second individual may accompany you to occupy the children while you teach. The clients mostly speak Farsi, Dari, Urdu, Arabic or Persian.
For more information about No One Left Behind go to www.nooneleft.org
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About No One Left Behind
Location:
P.O. Box 3641, Merrifield, VA 22116, US
Mission Statement
No One Left Behind helps Afghan and Iraqi translators gain their U.S. Special Immigration Visas and ensures that they are properly resettled in America. When our Afghan and Iraqi allies resettle in the US, they usually come with nothing more than the clothes on their back and whatever they can fit into one suitcase. We feel that given their profound service to our nation's military while at war, these interpreters deserve better than years of waiting on seldom delivered visas and almost no support in resettling in America.
Description
We help with immigration services to interpreters and translators who are being denied visas due to the bureaucratic red tape. We provide furnished apartments, modest financial support to help cover the weeks it can take before their social service benefits (food, medical, etc.) begin, and employment placement assistance. We also pair up newly arrived refugees with other Iraqis and Afghans who have successfully immigrated to the US -- to help smooth the transition.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
400 Moraga WayOrinda, CA 94563
DATE POSTED
May 25, 2017
SKILLS
- Adult Education
- People Skills
- English as a Secondary Language (ESL)
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Orientation or Training
- 6 hours/month