Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America Inc NFP
Empowerment through Education
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Educational Empowerment for SLIFE Refugee Children in Chicago
Founded in 2018, FORA helps illiterate refugee children gain foundational education skills so that school becomes meaningful. Focusing on the critical skills of reading and math understanding, we provide two hours a day of customized, intensive core instruction (with a 2-to-1 or less student-tutor ratio) for more than 60 Rohingya, Afghan and Bhutanese refugee students (with 31,200 student-hours of tutoring a year) through High Dosage Tutoring (HDT) (see Nickow, Oreopoulos, & Quan, 2020; Mahnken, 2020). We are unaware of anyone else implementing this strategy with pre-literate refugees, a category of marginalized students for whom high-dosage tutoring is, because of FORA, proving extremely effective. Approached with a social-emotional-learning (SEL) lens, the skills and confidence students gain at FORA allow them to participate meaningfully in school, as well as in the community through our non-tutoring programs of robotics, Model UN, debate and trauma-aware storytelling.
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Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America Inc NFP
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Dr. Farah Cheema
Kathleen O'Connor
Melike Oncu
Farah Noor Cheema
Wendy Kaplan Miller
Michael O'Connor
Seth Rigoletti
Natasha Yaqub
Shaik Kaleem
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