Cultural performance celebrates $50,000 literacy grant for refugee students
| What: | Following the "Parade of Cultures," NISD refugee students dressed in native clothing will demonstrate how music is helping them learn English |
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| When: | 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15 |
| Where: | Mead Elementary School, 3803 Midhorizon, 78229 (in the Medical Center) |
Northside ISD has been awarded a $50,000 grant to support Project Tumaini, a family literacy project for refugee families. Project Tumaini, a Swahili word that means to hope and believe with confidence, will provide refugee families from various countries with intensive and differentiated instruction focused on English literacy.
The performance, called "Declare Your Independence Through Literacy" celebrates the newcomers at Colonies North and Mead elementary schools. Both schools have a large enrollment of Asian and African refugee students who were brought to the United States through a federally-sponsored resettlement program. Most students arrive in the U.S. with little to no formal schooling or English.
The grant for Project Tumaini is provided by the First Lady's Family Literacy Initiative for Texas, a program of the Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy. Now in its 14th year, Houston-based First Lady's Family Literacy Initiative for Texas awards grants of up to $50,000 to public and private non-profit organizations that strengthen literacy skills within the family unit.
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