Spaniard uses his garage as language school for migrants

Tito Martin gives a lesson of Spanish in his private garage to migrants who have arrived on the island by boat, in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain July 21, 2021. REUTERS/Borja Suarez

LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA (Reuters) - As authorities on Spain's Canary Islands struggle to accommodate a sharp rise in the number of undocumented migrants arriving on its shores, a local man has turned his garage into a classroom to teach arrivals Spanish.

Between January and mid-July, 7,260 people landed on the Canary Islands in the Atlantic after making the perilous sea journey, compared to 2,800 in the same period last year, according to the Spanish Interior Ministry.