Salford residents wanting to learn English as a second language are being offered free lessons in Little Hulton and Pendleton.
The Wai Yin society provides courses to enable people to practise their writing, reading, listening and receptive skills within the city but also at its Welcome Centre in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
At the moment it offers two English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) courses: the ESOL for Volunteering in the community – which happens in Little Hulton until June 27 – and the ESOL for Active Citizenship in the Community which happens in Pendleton but is fully booked until the end of July.
Tutor Susan Crabb said: “The ESOL lessons we do are based here for Salford and Manchester residents. The Welcome Centre is just inside the Manchester area but because of that we have loads of people with Salford postcodes who access services here.”
Susan Crabb who works at the Welcome Centre gives more information about the ESOL courses in the video below.
The Wai Yin society is a female-led charity organisation that was established 30 years ago to help Chinese women that came to Manchester. It was initially set up because Chinese women faced discrimination both socially and in the family.
Over the years, the charity as grown to help lots of different other ethnic groups. It runs in three community centres, but the Welcome Centre is where most of the learning activities take place.
Ms Crabb said: “The Welcome Centre is exactly what it says in its title- it is a welcoming for anyone who walks through the door. Everyone is welcome here. We help people in all sorts of circumstances.
“We’ll have people coming in who need food parcels, who need to use our laundry facilities, who need help with benefits. Maybe everything has gone wrong for them, and the Welcome Centre will work with them to help them solve the problems that they are facing.”
(featured image is mine)
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