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Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization and Language Training

: The work will quickly begin to settle them into some sort of routine, according to CTV. Along with health care and housing, high on that list of priorities for the newcomers will be language training. They are arriving from camps, fleeing war. The teachers, the expertise is here; it just a question now of finding the space and funding. Students at the LINC program through the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization are learning how to read and write. On the third floor of a building on Ottawa Bank Street, there are strange noises coming from one of the classrooms. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.