By Andreas Jagersberger | Corporate Fundraising, Philanthropy & CSR
During the winter semester 2018/19 the 54 Austrian-wide Lerncafés supported 2,100 children from educationally disadvantaged families, with a special focus on migrant families. Besides the professional employees, all with a pedagogic and educational background, around 830 dedicated volunteers supported the kids in doing homework, preparing for tests or reading together in order to further improve the German language and reading skills. We are especially happy about the expected success rate of our students: We assume that about 98 % of our students attending the Lerncafés will get a positive school certificate at the end of the school year.
To give you a better insight what the support in the Lerncafés means for one specific student, we want to share an actual case study from a Lerncafé in Carinthia with you: Abdel (the beneficiary’s name was changed to protect his privacy), a 13-year-old boy from Syria, who attends the second grade in secondary school, has been coming to the Lerncafé Concordia in Klagenfurt for little more than a year now. Abdel came to Austria in 2015. First, Abdel attended the summer school at Lerncafé Concordia for six weeks in the summer of 2017. From then on he regularly visited the Lerncafé. Abdel has already been graded in the previous school year, but most of his grades were poor due to his difficulties in understanding the German language. Through the support of the dedicated Lerncafé team he was able to improve his grades at the end of last school year. In his latest school works before the semester break in February 2019 in the subjects English and math Abdel even achieved the grades “good”, whereby he only marginally missed the distinction “very good” by one point in math. Abdel is a very dedicated and highly motivated young boy who integrated himself very well into the Lerncafé Concordia as well as his school surroundings.
In Austria the official school-year ends with the end of June, so the children's well deserved summer-break is already around the corner. We wish them all the best for the final tests and exams and of course a great fun time with their friends and family!
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