Jain Center Los Angeles CA 1998 07 10th Anniversary of Jain Bhavan

Author(s): Jain Center So CA Los Angeles
Publisher: USA Jain Center Southern California

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English Classes for Senior Citizens
by Shree Sailesbhai Jain
Jain Center has a large population of senior citizens. They participate and enjoy many activities at our center. Many of them feel that they are missing out on few other pleasures of life because they do not know English.
One important pleasure they miss is the communication with their grand children, even though we at Jain Center are making progress in teaching our children our languages. Second important factor is that they are hesitant to go out to market or in public because they can not communicate in English.
Jain Center has started English classes for senior citizens, and others who want to learn to communicate in English. Shree Ramesh Jhaveri volunteered to teach the class. Shree Babubhai Shah joined in the teaching duties as the classes continued.
We started with four students, and reached to ten students. We are getting calls from people who are interested in teaching the class. We will have more teachers as they become available. We expect more students to join the class.
In the future I will become a teacher at the Jain center and I will try to become the
president of Jain center. - Sunil Parekh (11)
Jain Education Intemational