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Tutor English: Esl Classes and Bayan Khatib

tutor english: The project is a response to the growing number of newcomers stuck waiting to join ESL classes, according to Metro News. It can take months of being on the waitlists, but this is an urgent issue, said Bayan Khatib, one of the organizers of the tutoring project. Members of the Syrian Canadian Foundation – a community group formed last winter to help with integration of Syrian refugees – are looking for volunteers to help tutor English to hundreds of newcomers in Mississauga and Scarborough. We don't want these people to just sit there and wait while wasting their time. Thousands of Syrians settled in Toronto and the GTA following the Liberal government efforts to bring in 25,000 refugees earlier this year. They need to get jobs and start living their lives, and it hard without English skills. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.