In the basement of St. Anne – St. Augustin church in Manchester, class is in session. About two dozen people – mostly immigrants to New Hampshire – gather around tables to learn English as a second language. Twenty-eight year old Mariam Soulama came to the United States from Burkina Faso about five years ago speaking French, and not knowing much about life in the U.S.
“I learn everything here,” she says. “Father also help us to learn and have everything here to write, to read. Yeah, I like that.”
