English For Action (EFA London)

English for Action (EFA) is an action-orientated charity that works with over 400 migrants, refugees and asylum seekers per year across London, to build their capacity in challenging systems of structural oppression. EFA (1) provides free English courses utilising a methodology we call participatory ESOL; and (2) trains our students in community organising, to ensure they are ready to take on leadership roles and take direct action on the local, regional, and national issues most important to them. Current areas of particular concern for our students are migrants' access to healthcare; access to English education; overcrowded housing; and vulnerable workers' rights.