Samuel Lavi, a refugee from the Congo, has come up with innovative approaches to helping refugee families cope with navigating today’s challenging educational waters due to COVID-19, reports the Associated Press.
With remote classes now underway at the K-8 school for refugee children in Phoenix, Lavi helps students connect from home with loaned iPads so they can learn English before transferring to mainstream schools, the AP noted.
Lavi “created group chats on the WhatsApp messaging app in Swahili and some of the other six languages he knows. To ensure parents who can’t read or write could participate, Lavi taught them to record and share small audio clips.”
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 