Lydia Fernandes, a community youth worker, runs the Club. There is such a diversity of tutors and learners at the Homework Club that no one feels uncomfortable volunteering as a tutor or attending as a learner. This mix of cultures makes the Homework Club's atmosphere more inclusive and much more helpful to students of all nationalities. If I have trouble understanding a concept in English, I can always ask to be paired up with someone who speaks my own language. Then, I can understand things better.
Multicultural tutors are very beneficial to students who are new to the country.
Their multilingual skills provide a great resource for teaching in a diverse community such as Malton. The tutors' backgrounds include Latin American, South Asian, Guyanese, African and Caribbean. These diverse tutors are either high school or university students. They are informally interviewed by Fernandes before they officially begin to volunteer. There is one quality that she looks for in tutors and has found in all of them.