Last Friday, we had a discussion about housing on Resistance Legal Clinic's program on CAN-TV. Our guest was Roberto de la Riva, a former volunteer for Centro Autonomo de Albany Park. Part of the Mexico Solidarity network, they're a community center who assist Latinos living in Chicago. They also teach and tutor ESL students. I am currently in the process of volunteering for them. Their main mission is to be a community center "In every sense of the word", as they put it themselves.
Centro Autonomo also holds yoga classes, women's groups, art classes, computer classes, parties, writing workshops and even zumba. Related to Resistance Legal's mission of helping people with foreclosure, community members met at Centro Autonomo to help each other out and develop strategies to keep their homes.
The center can be contacted at 773-583-7728. You may also e-mail them at centro@mexicosolidarity.com
Volunteers looking to tutor ESL students are given tutoring training.They usually come in once, twice or even three times a week. Contact if you have any questions.
Their website is available here: http://mexicosolidarity.org/centroautónomo/en
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