When I Got Here
When I Got Here
Literacy Achieves
Jabeen (Pakistan): Mothers, Children and Language
14 minutes Posted Nov 1, 2022 at 6:00 am.
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Jabeen, a Pakistan-born woman watched her mother, who did not know English, struggle to the point of suicide in England. Jabeen’s own knowledge of English was essential to overcoming loneliness when she found herself without friends or family after immigrating to the U.S. English was the difference between failing and flourishing for these two women. Support the show