Each Friday afternoon our Summer English Immersion Program students go to Albany to do Community Service. This time for volunteering gives the girls a chance to get to know the community in and around the Capitol region of New York, as well as giving them a chance to interact in English in a meaningful way. We have paired with Emmaus Summer Camp, a summer program for immigrants and refugees, and each of our students has a little buddy with whom she interacts. We walked the children to the local public library and spent an hour reading books with them to help them develop their literacy. These underprivileged children are from all over the world; some of the girls’ little buddies were from Togo, Benin, Nepal, Iraq, Burma, and El Salvador, among others. Our girls did a great job helping the children pick books and to engage them in reading!
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| Judy reads with her buddy |
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| Melody looks on as Riley helps |
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| Nicole |
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| Emma helps her partner sound out words |
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| Lisa and her little buddy |
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| Having fun together |
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| Queenie and Sabrina together with Mary |
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| Keer and Iva read with a new friend |
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| Dinara helps her partner finish a puzzle |
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| Our whole group in front of the Pine Hills Library |
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