Au cours du mois dernier, j'ai \u00e9t\u00e9 tuteur pour des \u00e9tudiants \u00e9trangers adultes qui commencent des cours d'anglais langue seconde au Dorcas International Institute de Providence, qui propose une vari\u00e9t\u00e9 de programmes aux r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s\/immigrants.<\/p>\n
Au d\u00e9but, j\u2019avais deux femmes, mais en trois semaines, il y en avait cinq ! Je passe deux heures par semaine avec eux, compl\u00e9tant leurs cours r\u00e9guliers par des conversations de base. Leurs origines sont aussi diverses que leur tenue vestimentaire : Cap-Vert, \u00c9rythr\u00e9e, Afghanistan, Syrie et Porto Rico ! Nous passons le temps en conversations pratiques [pr\u00e9sentations, courses alimentaires, aller \u00e0 la banque, etc.]. Nous chantons \u00e9galement des chansons simples en anglais, qu'ils appr\u00e9cient.<\/p>\n
J'ai \u00e9t\u00e9 touch\u00e9 par leur vitalit\u00e9 et leur soif d'apprendre, malgr\u00e9 le fardeau douloureux des traumatismes qu'ils portent de la guerre, de la s\u00e9paration familiale et d'autres situations d\u00e9chirantes. Le fait que nous soyons \u00ab juste les filles \u00bb dans la salle permet une spontan\u00e9it\u00e9 qu'elles ne peuvent pas avoir dans leurs classes mixtes. Ceux du Moyen-Orient partagent volontiers la nourriture avec tous et le groupe la d\u00e9crit en cinq langues ! Leur courage et leur espoir sont une lumi\u00e8re dans notre p\u00e9riode politique sombre.<\/p>\n
Depuis 1921, le Centre Dorcas [du nom de l'une des saintes femmes des Actes, \u00ab pleine de bonnes \u0153uvres \u00bb] propose une vari\u00e9t\u00e9 d'exp\u00e9riences d'apprentissage et d'alphab\u00e9tisation, notamment une \u00e9ducation de base, une pr\u00e9paration \u00e0 la citoyennet\u00e9, une aide \u00e0 l'emploi et des services aux r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et \u00e0 l'immigration. De nos jours, il est \u00e0 l'avant-garde des efforts du Rhode Island pour accueillir les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s r\u00e9cents et leur fournir des services de base. Le Centre est un lieu anim\u00e9 et anim\u00e9 \u2013 chaotique et color\u00e9, permettant aux nouveaux arrivants de devenir autonomes dans une culture inconnue. Je suis reconnaissant de faire ma part pour leur offrir un visage accueillant et convivial. Mon s\u00e9jour l\u00e0-bas me rappelle la libert\u00e9 que je prends pour acquise \u2013 une gr\u00e2ce et un d\u00e9fi !<\/p>\n
\u2013 Janice Farnham, RJM \u2013 tutrice b\u00e9n\u00e9vole, Programme ESL pour les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s<\/p>\n
(photo de la Statue de la Libert\u00e9 avec la banni\u00e8re \u00ab Refugees Welcome \u00bb apparue le 21\/02\/17, tir\u00e9e de l'Instagram de Victoria Londero \u00ab Sheisvick \u00bb) <\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Depuis un mois, je suis tuteur pour des \u00e9tudiants adultes \u00e9trangers qui d\u00e9butent\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,186],"tags":[],"our_priorities":[],"section":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter","category-looking-on-our-world-with-the-eyes-of-claudine-and-responding-to-its-miseries-en"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Bridges"},{"value":186,"label":"Looking on our world with the eyes of Claudine and responding to its miseries"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/refugees-welcome-784x1024.jpg",784,1024,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"root","author_link":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/author\/root\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Bridges","slug":"newsletter","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":425,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":425,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Bridges","category_nicename":"newsletter","category_parent":0},{"term_id":186,"name":"Looking on our world with the eyes of Claudine and responding to its miseries","slug":"looking-on-our-world-with-the-eyes-of-claudine-and-responding-to-its-miseries-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":186,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Gazing upon our world with Claudine\u2019s eyes, being moved as she was by the suffering around her, we beg for the grace to be moved to COMPASSION and ACTION as she was. We are invited to explore the depths of that compassion in ourselves.\r\n","parent":202,"count":20,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":186,"category_count":20,"category_description":"Gazing upon our world with Claudine\u2019s eyes, being moved as she was by the suffering around her, we beg for the grace to be moved to COMPASSION and ACTION as she was. We are invited to explore the depths of that compassion in ourselves.\r\n","cat_name":"Looking on our world with the eyes of Claudine and responding to its miseries","category_nicename":"looking-on-our-world-with-the-eyes-of-claudine-and-responding-to-its-miseries-en","category_parent":202}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"our_priorities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_priorities?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjmusa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}