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...think most people outside the community know what's going on here," says Min whose pressing concern is with the number of immigrants from southeast Asia who reach Boston in great number and great need. Chinatown has 3500 registered citizens, and Min says the neighborhood continues to swell with newcomers from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam...
...Min, who gets most of her volunteer tutors from the Chinatown Committee, says the need to expand the ESL program has never been greater More than 200 people now share 10 tutors, with 500 more waiting for a chance to enroll. The Harvard volunteers keep the ESL running. "They're contributing now, and hopefully they'll contribute in the future," says Min. "I look forward to working with one centralized group...
...recruit more tutors, Min and Yee plan to co-sponsor seminars at Harvard this year that will acquaint prospective tutors with life in Chinatown...
...first seminar, to be offered at PBH in conjunction with Boston's International Rescue Center, will focus on the plight of Vietnamese refugees. They had a very different struggle from the people from Hong Kong and China," Min says. Recalling a time she tutored a group of newly arrived Vietnamese immigrants. Min says she got an unexpected reaction from her students when she brought up the subject of holidays and family gatherings "Half the students started shaking. A lot of them had lost entire families...
According to Min, the city of Boston has given the New Quincy School $1800 to pay ESL tutors and provides only 10 percent of the money needed to run the school's five different community programs. One of them, the New Quincy Day care program, has a three-year waiting list, which Chinatown women are advised to join as soon as they get pregnant to ensure that in the future some one will watch their children while they work...