French Language 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.
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.
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.
Mount St. Joseph Academy
15 Jewett Parkway at Main St.
Buffalo, NY 14214
Contact: Mary Bunich (if unavailable, contact the Principal Patricia Doyle)
Phone: 833-1515
Service opportunities: General tutoring and tutoring in Spanish and
French and Latin.
Vive La Casa
50 Wyoming Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14215
Contact: Thomas Tripp, Volunteer Coordinator
Email: vivevolunteers@yahoo.com
Sr. Louise, volunteer coordinator
Brian Brown-Cashdollar, Director
Email: bbc@vivelacasa.org
(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.