Word: kindern
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...Chorweiler's 80,000 residents, 60% have immigrant backgrounds and a third are on welfare. Lale Akgün, a psychotherapist and M.P., knew that the best way to keep the peace in such a culturally diverse area was to start with the kids. So, in 1995, she founded Kindernöte (Children's Needs) with a group of family counselors, and they put up that sign...
...Today, Kindernöte runs a dozen different groups for several hundred children. Every week, they play soccer, go on field trips together, help each other with homework or just throw a party. "Many of the children see that their prejudices do not bear up against reality," Akgün says. "They see that they can get on with children from other nationalities." When it's time to start up a new group, Kindernöte employees sometimes visit a playground with just a skipping rope and some chalk (since 1995, they've gone through 352 kg of chalk...
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