English on wheels
In a post at the end of last year, we looked at immigrant-advocacy groups across the US who are bringing the ESL classroom to the streets, 
for immigrant workers who cannot attend lessons in the classroom for financial or transportation reasons.
Well, the School on Wheels literacy program in Chicago is doing something similar, offering free ESL tutoring on a bus. The bus, which has been revamped into a classroom, visits different suburbs with immigrant populations each week on a rotating basis.
The program’s 325 participants receive one-on-one tuition from 280 volunteers, who themselves undergo two days of training.
The program was started in 1993 by a former elementary teacher, Sister Marybeth McDermott. She said that they simply “went into the neighborhoods and rang the doorbells and asked if they wanted English classes”.
Have a look at this article for the full story…
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