​ELPASO VOZ Lafayette leaders sent this letter to senators and house representatives to ensure they know that the Latino community does not want their children to do testing during this challenging year.

​This Fall, the Executive Director of the ELPASO program, Tere Garcia, reached out to her friend Chris Itano to ask if the Fellowship could provide tutoring for many of their students who were struggling with online learning. Chris helped Oscar Flores and ELPASO in providing the Las Posadas celebrations that took place at the Fellowship the previous three years. Chris brought the request for tutoring help to the Social Justice Council and I started coordinating it. We had a wonderful response from the Fellowship. There were a number of trainings led by Tere Garcia and Carol Pranschke helped with administering background checks.

​Now we have nineteen tutors who have been matched with a student and their family. Each tutoring pair also has a coordinator to help with communication.