Harvard Students Offer Free Tutoring to Belizean Students
A group of Harvard students and one from Emory University have joined efforts to provide free tutoring service for fourth and six formers while classes remain suspended. The services are being offered free of cost and the idea is to have the tutoring programme run at least until the end of May with one or two online sessions per week. Leading the initiative is Belizean Angel Navidad who is currently enrolled as a third-year undergraduate at Harvard University. Navidad says that this is the perfect time to help students continue to learn and be mentally active during the pandemic.
Angel Navidad, Belizean Student
“We are doing it because we thought that this would be really helpful right now and we had the time so why not.”
Hipolito Novelo
“And the group will be focusing on Math and English?”
Angel Navidad
Angel Navidad
“Ideally we want to focus on math and English. We think that those are core parts of high school curriculum but we can also do some other things. I know some of the tutors like biology. Some of them are doing arts, history, French. So it might be able to do other things but it will depends about the time and stunts sign up.”
Hipolito Novelo
“And so far how many students have signed up or contacted the group?”
Angel Navidad
“So far there are fifty sign ups. Those are only student sign ups. We still need to ask for their parent’s consent for their participation. Once their parent consent it is like an official sign up here we can start tutoring them.”
Hipolito Novelo
“So you are attracting a specific group of students?”
Angel Navidad
“Specifically, we mostly want to focus on fourth formers and sixth formers. That type of students but essentially I think the sort of student who would sign up would be the student who wants the help or needs the help because of course this is only supplemental to everything else that they are doing.”
Any fourth or sixth former may sign up for the programme online at sea alms dot com slash learn.
