Canada: Immigrant funding gets $10m boost

[Francis Hult]

The Chronicle Herald

 

Immigrant funding gets $10m boost

 

Services that help immigrants learn English, find work and adapt to their new country are getting a $10-million federal boost over the next three years.

 

The money will help provide more language training at the Halifax Immigrant Learning Centre, where one of the programs helps immigrants who can't read or write even in their own language, executive director Gerry Mills said.

 

"That's a real challenge," she said Friday. "People, often women, of course, they haven't had the opportunity to go to school in their home country, but what they've been able to do is develop other skills that compensate for that."

 

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