A few years ago I had my first experience of teaching some Bangladeshi ladies English. Lessons took place in a tiny community centre situated in a mouldy two up two down house in Lancashire. The terrace property had been derelect for some time and would have been left to nature had it been for a bright spark at the welfare association wishing to give it a new lease of life. So it became a learning centre and a place where local Bangladeshi groups could...

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