Asha’s Refuge works to teach a variety of American Life skills to local adult refugees. These skills might include lessons centered around understanding mail, learning about exploration dates and couponing at grocery stores, good apartment living habits, English conversation and more confident communication, how to ride the local bus, how to check out a library book, counting money, etc.  The lack of understanding these skills can cause newcomers to struggle even more with a task that is already a challenging process…achieving a  successful resettlement here in America.  

Knowing how to count American money for those who live in America is pretty important.  Refugees can feel vulnerable to being cheated.  Without this knowledge, they have an added difficulty to managing their already tight family budgets.   

We enjoy teaching these kinds of skills in our weekly American Life and Language classes and would love to host more of a variety of these classes. If you would like to help, please check out our volunteer pages on the website or contact Deborah Eaton, our VolunteerCoordinator, at  deborah@ashasrefuge.org.  

(Click the link below to view a short video clip of what some of our classes are like.)