CAMINOS / Pathways Learning Center
In San Francisco, Sr. Petra Chavez, RSM, knew that 70 percent of the new jobs in her city required computer skills, but the majority of the immigrant Latinas she met at the Central American Resource Center were housecleaners who had fled their home countries without finishing elementary school. With help from CCHD, she opened CAMINOS/Pathways Learning Center to teach such office skills as word processing and desktop publishing, web page design, computer repair, and typing. Classes are taught in Spanish, but students also study English, write resumes, and practice job interviews. CAMINOS graduates are bridging the digital divide, quadrupling their wages, and strengthening their families and communities.
At CAMINOS, immigrant women learn office skills, including classes in computer repair, to help them move out of their low-wage housecleaning jobs into more skilled employment. Photo from CAMINOS
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