Sprogcafe or Learning Danish to Foreigners with Content Lessons related to UN World Inter -Faith Harmony Week

In by Elizabeth P. Olesen

2024-02-07

Country: Denmark
City: Simon Peters Hus, Islandsvej 4, 6000 Kolding
  • Organizer

    Cross-cultural Ministry of Kolding Deanery and the office of Migrant Cooperation and Encounter with other Religions of Haderslev Diocese

  • Location

    Simon Peters Kirke, Islandsvej 12, 6000 Kolding, DK

  • Email

    [email protected]

Every Tuesday we have Sprogcafe, that is, teaching Danish language. to foreigners: refugees, foreign students, immigrants, guest workers, a help for their integration in Denmark. It is free of cost. Volunteer teachers are mostly Danish retired teachers together with new Danes who have been granted Danish citizenship and who are interested to be of help to welcome foreigners by helping them learn the Danish language. Lately, with the influx of Ukrainian refugees because of war, we have also former students in Sprogcafe who join as volunteers to help in teaching or in translation. Learning Danish is passport to good integration and job employment in Denmark. We have set aside 2 Tuesdays, February 7 and February 28 with lessons that will focus on UN World InterFaith Harmony Week, giving students three exercises: talk, read and write in Danish. We will also be using stories of Mother Theresa, of Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela… etc, as reading materials for group conversations and build up more vocabularies related to the idea on harmony, peace, freedom and love. And added to that, is the knowledge they will learn on the history and principles behind the worldwide celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week.