Mentors in the classroom
Example case · Foundation
Mentors in the classroom
Professionals give an hour a week. Students get someone who believes in them.
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The question
At a pre-vocational school in Rotterdam many students had nobody around them doing the work they dreamed of. Not for lack of talent, but for lack of an example and a network.
Talent enough. Too few examples.
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What we did together
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Mentors from the community
Entrepreneurs and professionals with a certificate of conduct and a short training.
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An hour a week
One mentor per student, at school, with the school’s own mentor present.
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An internship to finish it
Whoever wants to spends a week at their mentor’s company.
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What came of it
- [n]
- students with a mentor
- 1
- hour a week
- [n]
- internships
“He is the first who asked what I want to become and then came back.”
[Name], student
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What lasts
A student who once experiences that someone stays looks at the future differently. The foundation pays for this work with gifts, not with the students. Every hour a professional gives is an investment that reaches a generation further.
Someone who stays changes a future.
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Will you give an hour a week?
This story is an example: it shows what a collaboration looks like. Real stories follow, with the permission of the people they are about.