Connect Mannheim
Civic & Social Organization - Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Connect Mannheim stands for and commits to the personal and cultural exchange between refugees and university students on a level playing field. Connect Mannheim does so in creating and fostering small tandem learning groups between refugees and university students throughout the semester. Through this Connect Mannheim believes to ease the integration process of refugees in Germany by giving refugees a welcoming and fair shot at learning the language and developing personal bondages with local university students they can interact with and relate to as role models. It is not a classic student-teacher relationship we encourage among the groups, but rather one where we teach each other and learn from one another. This includes being open to learning the respective native language of the refugees, being curious in their culture and ready to learn more about it. We give and we take. Our small tandem groups are usually led by two responsible university students, who play a quintessential organisational role in the entire project. Meetings are held on a regular basis of at least once every two weeks. To further stimulate the relationships between all participant, Connect Mannheim organises regular activities where everyone comes together to celebrate our joint conviction in diversity, for instance through international dinners.
