The English Skills Learning Center (ESLC) named Vickie Steffey the volunteer of the month at their open house on December 7, 2011.
The open house was held to help students integrate into the community and be able to practice their English in a safe environment.
“We are one community coming together,” says Beth Garstka, volunteer and outreach coordinator.
Students and guests were given a dessert ticket as they came in the door. Each ticket had a list of questions that were supposed to be answered by four people before the person asking the questions could get dessert.
The tour included a walk through the expanded computer center that the ESLC is using to teach students basic computer skills and English.
The ESLC programs are geared toward teaching refugees who are beginning to learn English.
Frank Steffey, husband of Vickie Steffey, says that the refugees have such a huge mountain to climb when they come to the United States and English is an important element of their successful adjustment to their new home.
“They [the ESLC] rely so much on volunteers to work with the refugees,” says Vickie Steffey.
The ESLC computer lab is open on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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