Pilot Program Helps Newcomers
Categories: Newswire
Brothers, who left university to come to Canada from the Democratic Republic of Congo a year ago, are recent grads of the Salvation Army’s Life and Employability Enhancement Program for new immigrants, otherwise known as LEEP.
Like the brothers, almost all of LEEP’s participants are from war-affected African countries.
Last year, with the help of Manitoba Public Insurance, LEEP tried something new — a driver-training program that mirrors the one high school students take. Twelve participants got 30-odd hours of classroom training, the written test and eight hours of in-car instruction, all for the same $50 students pay in high school.
