The United States has seen a rise in African immigration in recent years. Our sponsor, African Community Education (ACE), is a nonprofit organization that supports the assimilation of the growing African immigrant and refugee population in Worcester, MA. The project’s goal was to improve ACE’s outreach and communication methods with its clients. Through interviews, we found that language and technology barriers were the main communication challenges. To address this, we developed community circles and educational videos summarized in a communication guidebook.

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Creator

• Gagne, Sydney D.
• Ng, Nathan C.
• Hote, Liza A.
• Rhines, Jeremy T.

Subject

• Learning
• Community
• Inclusion
• Well-Being

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 4901
• E-project-121020-203655

Keyword

• Outreach
• ACE
• African Immigrants
• African Community Education
• African Refugees
• Communication

Advisor

• Somasse, Gbetonmasse B.
• Jiusto, Scott

Year

• 2020

Center

• Cape Town, South Africa Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• African Community Education (ACE)

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 1 - No Poverty
• 4 - Quality Education
• 16 - Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

Date created

• 2020-12-10

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved