Our Public Relations Portfolio class has started working with Just Neighbors and both sides are very excited. I am apart of the Outreach group and we have lots of good ideas to how we can help them this semester. Just Neighbors reaches out to ESL classes, faith-based groups, government agencies, law schools, newspaper and television reporters, non-profit organizations, public school employees and social workers and shelter staff. One major issue of immigrants is their lack of knowledge of the English language. Check out this website to see the literacy rates within immigrants http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/comparative.cfm Besides the help Just Neighbors’ volunteers will be providing, we thought it would be a good idea to make more English literature accessible to their clients. We will be asking schools to donate books to our organization.
I think this is an especially interesting time to be working for an organization that deals with immigration laws because our nation has a new president in office. President Obama believes we must fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill. To learn more about Obama and Biden’s plan go to http://www.barackobama.com/issues/immigration/
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