Founder of Carson City-based ESL In-Home Program launches fundraiser to provide online learning devices to students
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Florence Phillips has taken her all-volunteer tutoring program for immigrants and refugees — English Language Learners In-Home Program — completely online over the last couple of months.
Rather than being “in-home” they are “at home” conducting English tutoring and GED preparation via Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, and simply over the phone. With a new focus on online tutoring, Phillips’s team has been able to recruit over 120 new tutors from around the country to teach students on the program’s waitlist.
Carson City is home to the English as a Second Language, In-Home Program of Nevada, which uses hundreds of community volunteers to teach English, citizenship preparation, and other workplace skills at no cost to its students, who are seeking to provide a better life for their families.
Since 2004, volunteer tutors have empowered more than 5,000 immigrants and refugees to learn English and the cultural skills necessary to lead a successful and productive life in America. Originally serving only northern Nevada, today the ESL In-Home Program has expanded its reach to learners living in other states around the country.
Unfortunately, while 80 percent of the program’s students, nearly 700 adults, are able to continue learning, the other 20 percent don’t have a personal device (computer or cellphone) to use for online instruction or are finding it difficult to practice while their children are home.
Phillips is raising funds to provide these students with personal devices for online learning so they do not regress in their English skills.
Please contact Florence Phillips if you wish to make a difference in someone's life by giving them the tools they need to practice English conversation with learners via SKYPE, Zoom, Face-Time, what's App or by telephone.
To make a donation or for more information call 775-888-2021; email: englishinhomeprogram@gmail.com.
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