Monday, February 01, 2010

Nonprofit seeing success in helping along assimilation process

This class is helping immigrants with their citizenship test. - - Donna Poisl

By Nicholas C. Stern, News-Post Staff

Simy Buckwold was applying for U.S. citizenship when her husband pointed out an advertisement for a citizenship class held by Centro Hispano at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church's Community Center in Frederick .

Centro Hispano is a local nonprofit that provides educational and other support for local immigrants.

The eight-session course began in November and ended Wednesday. The class was mostly a primer on U.S. civics, history and the necessary citizenship forms and procedures.
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