Torontoist, the city’s most popular local news blog, reported recently on an innovative new ESL program at the Regent Park Centre of Learning. Youth Empowering Parents (YEP) puts young people at the front of the class, providing free English and computer skills to local parents. Read the article here.
Describing the impetus for the program, founder Mohammed Shafique, explains “It’s already happening in homes—youth have to tell their parents what the bill means, how to read the signs in the grocery stores—so why not create a formalized setting where the students are trained to teach their parents English and computers?”