School on Wheels

Bringing education home

Hundreds of women from Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and El Salvador and other countries are isolated in worker camps and trailer parks in rural Immokalee and are functionally illiterate.

Since the women are homebound and have no way to come to the Catholic Charities for English classes, we bring the education to them through the School on Wheels Program. Classes take place in the home with a one-on-one tutoring session.

While their husbands learn English at work and their children learn English in school, these women yearn to be on the same level. They recognize that the ability to communicate English is a gateway to success and real freedom in the United States and beneficial to their families. School on Wheels is a woman to woman English tutoring program for migrant or other poor women. Basic survival English is tailored to the woman's needs. Without English, these women cannot help their children with their homework or communicate with doctors. We believe that "when you teach the mother, you teach the family."

School on Wheels is always in need of female volunteers. Training is provided and teaching experience or speaking another language besides English is not required. Please consider helping this worthy program.

Immokalee: Guadalupe Social Services of Catholic Charities

Guadalupe Social Services of Catholic Charities
211 S. 9th Street
Immokalee, FL 34143

Phone 239-657-6242
Phone 236-657-6264 (Immigration)
Fax 239-657-7761
E-Mail schoolOnWheels@guadalupess.info