This program is helping immigrants learn to thrive in their new country; their children learn in school and the parents are left behind. - - Donna Poisl By CAROLYN CLICK
Richland 2 program leader's goal: 'Make sure they have a better life'
Alma Puente-Ruiz scanned the church fellowship hall for the immigrant parents she had rescued from loneliness.
She pointed to one woman amid a throng of laughing, talkative women, then another, and another and another.
For Puente-Ruiz, a Richland 2 social worker, ending the isolation of parents new to America became a passion as she worked with families, first at the Department of Health and Environmental Control and then with the school district. Out of that passion and drive was born an adult-education program that teaches newly arrived immigrants how to navigate the language and the culture.
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