SAYPA’s Tutoring is geared towards helping elementary and middle school students in the core subjects of reading, math, science, spelling, social studies, and language arts.
Usually, Immigrants in the United States come from different backgrounds, and the newly arrived immigrants are in heart of cultural shock, being here in the US, immigrants feel that new opportunities and new dangers are born. The Somalis today constitute a complex transnational set of communities fanning out from Somalia and spanning across the globe from Australia to Western Europe and North America. The Somali diaspora consists of individuals (and groups) who arrived and were received in a wide range of host societies at different times and in different ways, thus bringing with them the social, cultural, and political divisions of back home (Somali).
SAYPA’s goal is to help immigrant parents understand the greatest risk is to see their children not have the opportunities that they did. The terms for this are “downward mobility,” “second-generation decline,” and “segmented assimilation.” The children of these immigrant groups are often discriminated against and attend substandard schools. This results in what scholars have called an oppositional identity or adversarial consciousness. This is a set of attitudes that may at some level be rational but are nevertheless deemed “maladaptive.”
SAYPA is here to show these parents how they can help each other like many of the great immigrant generations that came before them!