Mollie M. Murphy Dale has joined the staff of the English Skills Learning Center, where she will manage the center's new Family Literacy Program.

The center, established in 1988, is a nonprofit English language tutoring organization. The Family Literacy Program is designed to meet the special needs of Afghani and Somali/Bantu refugees.

Many of these families have lost a husband or father to strife in their home country, and many also are unable to read or write in any language.

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"Such students may not perform well in the structured adult ESL classes offered by the government through school districts, and so, in response to requests from various refugee resettlement agencies, we have initiated this program with seed funding from the Ashton Family and R. Harold Burton Foundations," said Barbara Fish, executive director of the English Skills Learning Center. Dale comes to the center from the International Rescue Committee where she was an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer and worked extensively with Sudanese and Somali women.

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