ESL Opportunities:
Catholic Charities: Immigration and Refugee Assistance Program
394 Franklin Street
Suite 200
Buffalo, NY 14202
Contact: Becky Mischler, Volunteer Coordinator
716-842-0270
b.mischler@ccwny.org
Days: Monday through Friday
Times: 8:45-4:45
Service opportunities: Assisting adult teachers with ESL in small classes of adults, tutoring, babysitting, immigration assistance work, helping people prepare for employment searches, teaching simple computer programs to staff, and basic adult computer classes.
Herman Badillo 21st Century after School Program
300 S. Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14201
Contact: Marjorie Woods, Program Coordinator
716-816-3841
Days: Monday-Thursday
Time: 2:30-5:00
Service opportunities: Tutoring in many subjects including ELA (English Language Arts), NLA (Native- American Language Arts), and remediation in math. Spanish language opportunities exist. Many other cultural and artistic programs are done daily.
Hope Refugee Services
318 Breckenridge St.
Buffalo, NY 14213
Contact: Anna Ireland
Phone: 881-0539
Service opportunities: Can be arranged with the contact person. Many opportunities exist.
Middle School Youth Program
Focuses on basic English literacy skills (reading, writing, and speaking), and math skills with students. Students will work either one-on-one or in small groups with a tutor.
Program Schedule:
Our program will meet on:
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-6:00
Saturdays: 10:30-12:30
International Institute of Buffalo
864 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14209
Contact: Nick Pruyn
716-883-1900 ext. 302
Adminvolunteer@iibuff.org
http://www.iibuff.org/
Days: Monday through Friday
Times: 8:30-5:00
Service opportunities: ESL tutoring assistance, tutoring families in homes for a couple of hours, employment assistance, legal assistance, history archives.
International P.S. 45
141 Hoyt Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14213
Contact: Kathy Foy, Program Coordinator
716-816-3300
kfoy@buffaloschools.org
Days: Monday through Friday
Times: 7:55AM-2:00PM (other times can be arranged)
Service opportunities: ESL, tutoring in various subject areas, music, special ed., and computer work.
Journey's End Refugee Services
184 Barton Street
Buffalo, NY 14213
Contact: Elaine Smythe-Bogumil
882-4963(Elaine)
Days: vary
Times: vary
Service opportunities: Interacting with resettled refugees, assisting with apartment set-up, helping increase financial literacy, employment help, tutoring for the citizen exam(history class),helping with ESL classes, graphic design, giving assistance to French and Spanish speaking refugees, and computer work and programming.
Vive La Casa
50 Wyoming Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14215
Contact: Sr. Louise, volunteer coordinator
(716)892-4354
www.vivelacasa.org
Days: vary
Times: vary
Service opportunities: Taking refugees for an outing, talking with them and creating experiences for them, computer lab help, help with cooking, nursing aid, morning greeter, playing with refugee children, and sharing meals with the refugees. French and Spanish students will have opportunities to interact with French and Spanish speaking refugees.