10 years of opportunities.
International family partnerships create unlimited opportunities if they are truly well matched.
The software for our family matches is forever work in progress. We're now about to take a major step forward.
The software for our family matches is forever work in progress. We're now about to take a major step forward.
Every child is different in some way, be it through a special need or a specific
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No child is born to conform to a norm.
Yet, school systems need their norms and standards to function well. We understand that. |
So for the compulsory parts of learning, norms are perfectly okay. However, our job is to cater for the freestyle elements! |
not-the-norm!
Whenever your kids' best interests lie beyond established norms and standards look to your
Global Native partner families. Matching the right Haves and Wants holds a million solutions.
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We've been creating individual opportunities since March 2009. This year we'll pay even more attention to our wonderful un-normed kids! We make sure they find just the right partner families in just the right circumstances.
For this purpose we have recruited seven amazing students from four continents, four young ladies and three young men, all of them have grown up in Global Native families and have been with us for years. They know the ropes, they know what kids need and are now busy writing the code for an even better matching program to do what has not been done before: To create matches for family partnerships that can take everything help- and useful into account: The parents' professions, interests and abilities, the kids' talents, dreams and needs, the families' locations and languages, climate and environment, infrastructure and accessibility, organisations and schools. |
The code they are writing is based on everything we have learned in the past ten years. It will account for the fact that over 40% of all families actively include grandparents in their plans and it will know which places can improve a kid's health, still its longing for nature and for cultural experience. It will allow for opposites to attract and for kindred spirits to connect; to switch the city for the countryside and the mountains for the sea. Our idea of a great match invites a kid to dive into a familiar subject with a vengeance and to opt for something completely new and different with the same vigour.
We embrace serendipity!
We embrace serendipity!
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The new program will take a household's cats and dogs into account, it will consider allergies and special food preferences. Families will be able to look for specific challenges (your kid is a genius in maths, so why not match with a prof who teaches just that?) and they will be able to cater for many handicaps that have kept families from even thinking about exchange options until now (like Eddie, see his story here!).
For ten years children have discovered their favourite sport or the perfect music instrument through their partner families, soon they will be able to include their special wishes as search factors in their Haves-and-Wants profiles. |
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Family partnerships have brought twelve-year-old Ken from the beaches of Greenland to the beaches of Greece, fourteen-year-old Milla from Finland with her exceptional talent for Latin and Old Greek under the mentorship of a Cambridge professor, Ben from Stewart Island, NZ, to an Academy of Music for the Blind in L.A., eleven-year-old Emiko from Matsuyama into an equally talented family of avid chess players in Sydney and nineteen-year-old Johan from the Danish countryside to learn the craft of crystal cutting in the Tyrolean Alps.
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To get an idea on the bandwidth of our diversity please visit the case studies section!
But first enjoy 6 minutes of young wisdom as a self-confident testimonial for not-the-norm power:
