On the East Lake Language and Arts Library on Monday, round 20 youngsters gathered to observe a video of Chattanooga Pink Wolves goalkeeper Ricardo Jerez learn a youngsters’s e book in Spanish.
Jerez, who additionally performs for the Guatemala nationwide staff, in contrast studying to soccer, saying each require each day observe.
The video was one among a number of created for the launch of “Roads to Studying,” a brand new program that gives households with Guatemalan heritage books and audiovisual assets of their native languages to advertise early childhood literacy.
“We’ve a very massive Guatemalan group right here that isn’t Spanish-speaking,” stated Melissa Callejas, a program supervisor on the nonprofit Enterprise Middle, which seeks a extra inclusive future for Chattanooga by expertise and innovation. “Their first language just isn’t Spanish.
