Youth Empowering Parents Program and Microsoft Office

Valliammai Chettiappan: James Town elementary school, where through the Youth Empowering Parents program, students are teaching new Torontonians how to navigate the web, use Microsoft Office and other everyday tech skills, according to CBC. Some students are teaching their own parents while others are paired up with adults or seniors who speak their native tongue. And that exactly what happening at a St. It is a liberating experience for Valliammai Chettiappan, who left India for Toronto six months ago. "After this class, I know how to use maps, how to know the weather," she said. It recently won a United Nations innovation award. And the student-teachers find it equally rewarding. "It fun to teach someone else, to give someone else your knowledge," said Mathushan Ganeshalingam, a Grade 6 student at Rose Avenue Public School. "It good to do that." Youth Empowering Parents is underway in five Toronto schools as well as three other countries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.