Don't look now, but a group of Sicilian-Americans is doing something besides telling each other how much they love cannoli and pasta and Godfather movies. You are reading this right....some Americans are now actively involved in raising money in the United States and supporting Sicilian students FOR FREE by issuing academic grants to a QUALIFIED language school in Taormina and have quietly trained nearly 200 Sicilian high school kids the last 18 months.

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Pass the cannoli and say it in English please. Here is the story: In 2012, I wrote my second book on Sicily, Gaetano's Trunk and in one chapter I whimsically said that if someone gave me a million dollars I would start a school in Sicily to teach English to high school students because I wasn't thrilled about what I was seeing in terms of educating Sicilian kids in the English language.

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Source: http://www.timesofsicily.com