Blue Door Education
212 Old Bakery Street
Valletta VLT 1451
Malte
Personne de contact: Justine Lubnow
+ 356 7904 2040
info@bluedooredu.org
https://www.bluedooredu.org/
https://www.facebook.com/bluedooredu.org
Les Thèmes
- Organisation d'aide
- Politique + projet d'éducation
- Projet des médias
- Bénévoles sont les bienvenus.
Qui sommes-nous
Blue Door Education (VO/2165) is a voluntary organisation (registered NGO) based in Valletta, Malta. Our team of dedicated and passionate volunteers provides free literacy, language and lifeskill classes, both in person and online, for adult refugees and asylum seekers, and adult migrants with a social worker referral. Education enables upward social mobility, and each additional skill can mean higher income, leading to better access to nutritious food, sanitation, healthcare and accommodation. The hands-on linguistic first aid and practical skills courses we provide help refugees and asylum seekers rebuild their lives in their new host country.
Founded in 2013, Blue Door Education (then called Blue Door English) began teaching English to two groups of four students in the community who had requested help. Since then we have become a registered NGO and voluntary organisation (registered charity), and are able to welcome around 180 service users per week through our doors as well as online, with English language courses ranging from literacy to B1 (pre-intermediate). In 2018 we opened our Mums and Bubs classes for migrant mothers, an especially vulnerable and marginalised group in Malta, who are welcome to bring their children to class, for whom we provide free childcare. In 2020, we began offering online courses for learners who are already digitally literate, and in 2022 our services expanded to offering IT & Tech classes, with a focus on navigating standard office software and tasks using a smartphone, which is often the only technology our students have access to.
We remain immensely grateful to St. Andrew's Scots Church in Valletta for continuing to provide us with a safe space in which to carry out the lion's share of our operations.
Our work
• Literacy and language courses: We run free weekly literacy and English courses ranging from literacy to CEF B1 (pre-intermediate), both in person and online. All our teachers have TEFL/CELTA and/or a pedagogical qualification, as well as many combined years of experience working in humanitarian fields.
• Women only courses: We also offer classes run by women for women. Migrant mothers are an especially vulnerable and marginalised group in Malta and are often left behind. By providing free childcare during lesson time, we ensure they have the chance they deserve to learn and take part in community activities.
• IT & Tech: We run various courses on basic and helpful everyday IT skills like how to navigate Google drives and improve proficiency in gmail, docx and sheets using a smartphone. Bearing in mind many of our students do not own or have access to tablets or laptops, these courses help them access the digital world and make the most of the technology they have available.
• Literacy and Language Videos: As much of the literacy material available on the web is made for young children, we produce and publish short literacy and language tutorials on YouTube aimed at teens and adults. These can be used by teachers as part of a lesson, or learners can watch and practice in their own time and at their own pace to complement their course.
• Country factsheets: We produce country factsheets that provide transparency regarding critical political and cultural issues which drive migration, and highlight education and literacy, or severe lack thereof in some cases.
• Ebook "Instant English": The ebook "Instant English" was written by our fourteen year old volunteer, Asiya. It has five helpful units with 200+ words of English vocabulary, phrases, images and exercises to help students master daily English. Translations into Arabic, Ukrainian, and Spanish, are included - the most frequent first languages of BDE students.
For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.