“As the number of minors arriving to Latvia and seeking asylum is increasing, it is necessary to pay much more attention to this group with creating education materials suitable and adapted especially for this target group and by ensuring age-appropriate education both about Latvia in general and about subjects and interests corresponding to their age,” Gunta Viksne (Gunta Vīksne), Project Manager, emphasizes. „Thanks to this material, the underage refugees now have the opportunity to obtain information in their mother tongues and to learn about Latvia and the Latvian language in creative manner.”
The prepared material on 27 pages has been created with the support from the author/proof-reader Liene Valdmane and the teachers from classes for children who will from now on use the created material for organizing and supervising the classes. L. Valdmane has the essential experience obtained by working with the project’s target group for several years and teaching the Latvian language to refugees, also to minors, within the projects of European Refugee Foundation implemented by the Society "Shelter "Safe House"".
“The artwork of the information material has been designed in a way that it is easily understandable for the children, thus helping the underage children understand the described subject while reading, watching the illustrations and carrying out different assignments,” L. Valdmane says. “Grown-ups in their lives are looking for common values and learning about the culture of other nations, but children are looking for friends. And friendship is what this material is about.”
It has been planned to copy the information material as quality colourful printouts in office-like conditions.
Information was prepared by: Rasa Salina (Rasa Saliņa), Communications and Social Media Expert, e-mail: rasa.salina@gmail.com