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Help Teach English To Immigrants At This McKinley Park Literacy Center

By Joe Ward | October 10, 2017 5:02am
 Aquinas Literacy Center is looking for volunteers to teach classes at its expanded facility in McKinley Park.
Aquinas Literacy Center is looking for volunteers to teach classes at its expanded facility in McKinley Park.
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McKINLEY PARK — A move to a larger, more prominently placed building will allow Aquinas Literacy Center to reach more students, but now it needs the volunteers to fulfill that mission.

The literacy center — which teaches English language courses to adult immigrant communities — moved into its new location at 1751 W. 35th St. in early September after two decades in a nearby church basement.

The new location will allow Aquinas Literacy Center to increase its capacity for instruction, but because all courses are one-on-one, the center needs volunteers to achieve that goal.

READ: Aquinas Literacy Center Moves Into New Building On 35th Street

Now the center is looking for new volunteer tutors who can help in that effort, the group said in a Facebook post. Currently, there are 46 prospective students on the group's waiting list.

Volunteers will need to commit two hours per week, including 1½ hours of instruction and 30 minutes of preparation, the center said. Knowledge of a second language is not required, since all instruction is in English.

A new tutor training workshop is scheduled for 6-9 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. The center asks those interested to pre-register by emailing sabrina@aquinasliteracycenter.org or calling 773-927-0512.

For more information on volunteering at the center, click here.