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through the home school is on with the migrant program here in Swedes What exactly do you do. Gloucester County educational services and I cover off Gloucester County. And when what do you do there. OK what I do is recruit on the. Whole program and what I usually do is just recruit students and enroll into our program and we provide supportive services in some educational services and your work. What are some of the. Tell me about some of the cases that you found in the micro poking at had influence on. A little bit of everything. Social Work and recruiting and everything. We've had very bad cases with it you know that these people are all cooked and everything and we've taken to Dennis to get that taken care of. We take some of the kids who have severe eye problems also and have been examined by the New Jersey commission of the blind and.

You know like. We DO ANYTHING FROM take them to the school to take them to hospital we had a girl that. Had a very. Bad problem. We weren't sure what it was but she got sick from it. It was some belief and some for her religion I think and we ended up taking it to the hospital and eventually to a psychiatrist everything that we do every you know type of type of work you know. And what if you found I that I that children. Really interested in going to school or what are their aspirations and how do you see the program affecting that. Like all children you know then there are when I go to school but we do have a lot of kids that are motivated to go to school because they sit in some of the houses like. And they're just standing there doing nothing on the farms. And when they come to school they have the opportunity to meet other kids especially like in summer school we have a lot of kids like in the morning you know they get up at 6:00 o'clock in the morning we're supposed to be out there 7:00 just ready to go to summer school and I see I think you know the program does very well especially

for the kids a couple Puerto Rico. And. They get from Puerto Rico you know. And. And you know they have a language problem. And we provide tutors and everything that work with them. And give them the additional help that they need. To TELL ME MORE. I know that very often what happens is when a student reaches the age 16 if they need if they're needed to help support the family then they have to go out to work in the fields very often. Are you finding this is the case and it's very true that we have about two years ago we had about five students quit school when they were 16 years old. And the problem was is one like you say that a lot of them go out and work. Other problem was that the kids they had the problems at the school they sit in the classrooms and they're lost like they don't know what's going on they come directly from Puerto Rico and they don't know word of English and they see in the classrooms and you know it's very difficult when the classroom doesn't have

the people to work with them to sit down explain to him what's going on and not have time to sit in the back of the room and are totally lost. So the minute education program how does this change that. It does change because what we do we send out a tutor to the schools and she sits down and work one on one. And it gives the kids the opportunity to interact with the other students. So it really works out a lot. Let's talk a little bit about the community now because you also work with the parents and people in various businesses here. You've been in the suites for how many years now I've been here for 20 years 20 years were raised up in Swainsboro. I went to school at schools here a local school in Sweden a water boy and I went to college at county college and I just graduated from grass persay college in business. And what do you see yourself doing down the pike. Right now I really enjoy business and I enjoy what I'm doing now with. It.

And enjoying what I'm doing with the families or anything but. I've always been in business and that's. The Beatles have always been in business and that's what I and Speke do in a future operating my own business. So you see yourself almost as a role model also for some of the children. Yes. Yes I do because I have a lot of kids that I can talk to him and they relate to me and. Like they can come to my house anytime and we could talk about our problems and really you know. Words are pretty good. What do you think is the main problem that the children bring with them to school that you can help solve. What do you say is perhaps the main problem that children big with them to school that you can help solve. With them when it's the main problem that it's migrant children bring with them to school that you and your work and the community and parents can help solve. A lot of times. Some of the problems that face us on the kids.

One is like the language like you mentioned before and other times some of the kids aren't dressed properly because of course you know that some of these families are very poor. And the churches here and in our program we are able to go out and find clothes for them and help them out by the time during Christmas we also provide our dinners for some of these families that are in need. So there are so many things that you know we could do. And we try to do as much as we possibly can working with other agencies in ourself. Thanks. Right. Now we're going to spend less time at sea. Tell me about the work that you do with the migrant program here in St.. Well what I do is just recruit some of the kids who are still

doesn't it tell me about the things that you do. You the home school is on with the migrant program here in the Gloucester County area. What exactly do you do. Do you want to talk. Well. What I do recruit some of the students and you know. And it's a lot of referrals and you know and take them. Do you do you. I do get much involved with the health services. We work with different agencies we work with the county health. Department and we also work with the work program. What's what's the with women infant and children and they deal why would our preschool children. And. You know working with agencies they provide a lot of services for us and it makes it easier for us to. Give more out to the you know to the families. What what areas of clothing of Transport do you do anything.

Sure yeah. We provide transportation for all the families. We take some of the children to the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia St. Christopher's to some of the clinics in the area. And in clothing we work with. We work with the Catholic services and we also are some of the closer we have in our storage area. What are some of the greatest needs that you find these children having. Greatest needs I. One I feel is. WHAT TYPE IN THESE ARE you talk about like in any outstanding needs it whether it's in health education our social adjustment. Yes I mean I think these kids need more attention. You know and it's really seem like when it's mission that in the schools like a lot of times we have some of the kids when they attend a summer program they're different person there. You have a whole group of people that are just about the same a lot of them and we've had cases where some of these kids in regular classrooms are just real quiet. They all sit in the back of the room and they want to thing.

But once they get to summer program there some of the leaders. Which is you know. When I first started working a scene that I thought was really you know strange scene. Little Jimmy Vera who was a real quiet kid in. The class. Also was a leader of this other classroom. So that's something I think you know that attention they get one and one. Many.