Part 1
Several weeks before Chesapeake Multiculural Resources Center in Easton received a $223, 000 grant from the Maryland Department of Education’s 21st Century Community Learning Center initiative, I sat down with program Director, Mathew “Mateo” Peters, to talk about ChesMRC and the changing immigration issues within the Easton community.
The funding will provide a formal academic afterschool program for up to 135 students attending Easton Elementary who are challenged academically as a result of language, culture, race and income disparities.
ChesMRC was established in 2012 by a group of local citizens who are committed to engaging and empowering immigrant families to become successful and involved community members, and to build strong bonds between all racial and ethnic groups. Together with its partners and 20+ community volunteers, last year the Multicultural Resource Center provided a homework help program for 80 children at Oasis Covenant Fellowship church hall.
For more information, see the ChesMRC site here.
Ed. Note. If you happened to miss the Multicultural Festival in Idlewild Park last May, be sure to catch the next one. It’s an amazing community event with an impressive show of support from community partners, volunteers and the people of Talbot county.
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