Work Opportunities: Skills and Work

work opportunities: Efforts are also underway to find employment for newcomers, including work in their fields of expertise, according to CBC. There a lot of talent, skills and abilities that our province could benefit from.'- Getachew Woldeyesus, Regina Open Door Society settlement and family services manager "Foreign credentials recognition is a huge issue," Woldeyesus said. "It not uncommon to find people that are not working in their field or under-employed." He said that some work opportunities require language skills that many of the refugees have yet to attain. "There a lot of talent, skills and abilities that our province could benefit from, from this group of newcomers," he said. "We are really hoping that employers will continue to work with us." Tutors help through library program One of the places providing language assistance is the Regina Public Library, which matches volunteer tutors with people learning English. He said many youngsters have progressed rapidly with their language skills. "When talking to them, you would feel that they'd been here a very long time," he said. Literacy supervisor Alice Samkoe said Reginans were quick to respond to requests for additional volunteers. Alice Samkoe with the Regina Public Library said about 250 volunteer tutors are part of its program providing language assistance to newcomers. The library went from a pool of 130 tutors in December 2015 to 250 by March. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.