Hanseatic School for life

The Hanseatic School for Life, formerly Beluga School for Life, is a non-governmental, social service project in Thailand.

General

The HSfL cared for in emergency guessed children and adolescents. It pursues the " situational approach " as an educational concept. In the family-like coexistence and project-oriented learning, the children and young people achieve in concrete " key situations " basic technical, social and business skills that will help them reach their life positively. New Managing Director in Hamburg is Silke Nagel. The line in Thailand as a Project Manager Sommart Krawkeo.

History

The Hanseatic School for Life in October 2006 in southern Thailand in Na Nai ( " village in the rice field " ) opens at Khao Lak. The initial objective was to help the many children in Thailand, who had made the tsunami in the Indian Ocean to orphans on Boxing Day 2004. Thailand was one of the countries worst affected by the disaster.

The concept of the school rested from the beginning on the two pillars of living and learning. The children live in family-like structures similar to those of the world's established SOS Children's Villages. The knowledge transfer takes place in the gradually extended Ausbilddungszentren, in so-called " learning sites " on the site. The spiritual father of the situational approach is the Berlin pedagogue Prof. em. Dr. Jürgen Zimmer, who founded the International Academy for Innovative Pedagogy and Economics gGmbH ( INA) at the Free University of Berlin and accompanied the implementation of the concept in the Hanseatic School for Life. He also founded the School for Life in Chiang Mai.

Objectives and activities

The objective of the Hanseatic School for Life is the clear focus on providing practical and easily applicable knowledge, with which it is to be made available to students possible to later build a life and even create jobs. Behind the concept is the idea of "help to self-help" by which a sustainable contribution should be made to reduce poverty. The guest area of the village serves as a " learning center ", which is unique in its kind in southern Thailand " Hotel Training Institute " for high school graduates to apply practically in a one-year training skills in dealing with tourists and to qualify for the hotel business.

Financing

The Hanseatic School for Life is funded primarily through donations, sponsorships and a consortium that current shortages of school fields.

Support from the business:

  • Germanischer Lloyd

Awards

The Hanseatic School for Life was September 30, 2007, by the initiative of the Federal Government Germany - as a "Selected Landmark in the Land of Ideas" land of ideas. In November 2008, received the Hanseatic School for Life by Willi Lemke, UN Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace, a personal distinction. He particularly stressed the School for Life out: " I'm going to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said that this is the best project here that I 've seen so far ."

Criticism

In addition, it is not awarded the DZI seal, which certifies the proper use of donations. The shipowner Niels Stolberg, a founding member of the predecessor of the Hanseatic School for Life is, according to prosecutor Frank Passade, donations have embezzled the school.

Media coverage

Reports in the national media about the new Hanseatic School for Life:

  • ARD rescue the Hanseatic School for Life July 11, 2011
  • SZ Reeder Stolberg of embezzlement suspect. A donation that did not arrive October 5, 2011
  • TAZ Orphanage Finanzierung.Die track of donations March 14, 2012
  • HSfL is financially secure until 2013 (PDF; 1.9 MB) Hanseatic School for Life November 29, 2011
  • WDR Hanseatic School for Life January 22, 2012
  • NDR Where are the donations for the Beluga School? , People speak of a misnomer 13 March, 2012
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