Confidence / Empowerment
For poor women from another country and culture, mastering the English language adequately, within their own neighborhood and without the worry of who will care for their preschool children, is an achievement whose impact on their lives cannot be overestimated.

It gives them entrée to jobs and the ability to conduct simple commerce. It makes it possible for them to communicate with teachers, medical staff, and other caregivers about their children’s problems and progress. Learning English gives our women the most basic tool they will need – the ability to communicate – to even consider other job or educational options for themselves and their children. In short, the programs of Caroline House give poor immigrant women the one thing they most need – CONFIDENCE! This leads to empowerment, which enables the first critical step to be made on a long journey that will take them, hopefully, far beyond Caroline House to a better, more secure and productive life for themselves and their children.