The ability to speak English is an important part of immigrant assimilation in the United States. Language proficiency is a key driver of immigrant integration. It increases job opportunities and facilitates social and political participation.

Before COVID-19, immigrants in these marginalized communities already had to navigate a host of systemic barriers in their day-to-day lives, including low-wage work, language barriers and, for undocumented immigrants, the looming threat of deportation. When the pandemic hit, these social and economic preexisting conditions created "a perfect storm...

In the latest estimation from UNICEF, nearly half a million children in Haiti have lost access to education, and thousands of schools have closed their doors, due to repeated natural disasters, gang-related violence, and ongoing economic hardship. In 2019, after 26 years of operation Ecole Mitsraim de Nirva, the very first primary school opened in...

There has been a recent influx of immigrant families to low-income areas in Massachusetts. Currently in Massachusetts, there is great impetus for ESL programs because of the continuous increase of non-English speaking immigrants in the state. Immigrants who cannot speak fluent English cannot contribute much to the American society because of their...

Action for Haitian Community Development (AHCD) and Woburn Community Resource Center are excited to offer a no-cost ESL Readiness Summer Program for Newcomers—an essential initiative designed to help recently arrived immigrants gain English language proficiency and workforce readiness skills.