Description of organisation

The Children Language Bridge is a non-profit working association, which emerged from a student initiative in the year of 2002. Within a short time a strong association, supported by some 100 members and volunteers and 70 employees developed.
In addition to the support of children of non-German mother tongue, we are also supporting the inclusion project "Sozialpädagogisches Team Teaching" and the school social work in a community school run two stationary youth welfare facilities for young people and provide culturally sensitive outpatient services to the education. In April 2019 our multilingual and sustainable kindergarten Sprachkiste ("Voice Box") opened.
From the offers more than 200 children aged one to 18 years and their parents in Jena and Thuringia benefit. Since 2014, we are the largest training providers in Thuringia for intercultural training in day care centers, schools and youth welfare and recognized partner in the development of German as a second language in school.

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Economic obstacles
• Geographical obstacles
• Refugees