What is Crossing Borders?

We support children and young people in less-developed regions by improving their educational opportunities

Taking the statement "We change the world for the better" as its motto, Crossing Borders is focused on making a sustainable contribution in less fortunate regions of the world.

Education enables children and young people to lead a better and more independent life. If knowledge and experience are passed on, a sustainable and self-perpetuating effect is achieved that allows families and whole communities to progress. By focusing our efforts on poor regions, we achieve the most comprehensive effect with our available resources.

As an independent association, we have currently 190 members worldwide. Up until now, we have supported projects in 34 countries and on four continents.


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What do we do?

Financial assistance and organizational support for projects

Crossing Borders offers financial assistance and organizational support to projects that improve the education opportunities of children and young people in disadvantaged regions of the world. In special cases, projects in other regions are also supported. More rarely, we support the charitable engagement of our associations members financially through donations.

Additionally, we also try to foster networks of knowledge exchange and communication activities that aim at enhancing social awareness and social competencies.

How to support us?



Support the idea

By sharing our passion, spreading the word and actively bringing in your thoughts and ideas, you are making a contribution. We are always looking for fresh ideas, networking opportunities, interesting project proposals, and motivated people sharing our commitment.

Spread the word and help us to reach more people!

Donate

We guarantee that donations are used in order to improve the education opportunities of children in less-developed regions of the world. All donations are used exclusively for supporting our partner projects.

It is straightforward - you donate and we make sure your money goes directly to the cause.


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Support the projects

What counts in the end is that children receive support in order to live a self-determined and happy life. Support for this cause does not necessarily have to go via Crossing Borders, we are happy to create opportunities for direct engagement within the projects

Check out the section "What does Crossing Borders do?" in order to learn more about our projects and their concrete support needs.

School Linking Project (Malawi)

"boNGO Worldwide" tries to improve the standards for education in Malawi. In the current project, a cooperation between two educational institutions in Malawi has been initiated in order to further improve the quality of teaching. and bring together children from different backgrounds

Early education in Malawi is often characterized by a lack of resources and qualified personnel. Effective state support is lacking as well. At the model childcare center in Umodzi-Mbame where every year about 100 children are taught by qualified teachers, the methods of Montessori pedagogy are used in order to support the learning process. Required education material is produced in an own workshop, which in turn offers apprenticeship positions for young adults. The partnership between Umodzi-Mbame and the Mini-Me nursery and primary school allows teachers in both institutions to learn from each other and share experiences. The project also brings together children from various backgrounds and helps to build friendships.

How to support this project?

The School Linking Project is looking for educational experts with a professional experience in pedagogy (Montessori methods or others). Also skilled artisans and other people willing to support the work in Malawi are welcome.

Partners:

boNGO worldwide
http://www.bongoworldwide.org

Where:

Malawi