OPPORTUNITY KITCHEN!

Access to the world's opportunities. And to each other. 
This is what we do. In fact, we are the world's only community dedicated to creating chances.
Now the pandemic turned our opportunity kitchen into a powerful game changer.

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photo: Geoff Greenwood, Unsplash

Opportunities ​​are everything.

When we started this community in 2009 we knew what we wanted:​ ​
To give curious, keen-to-know kids from all walks of life (and all kinds of family budgets) access to the world's opportunities, based on fair give-and-take between families.

We wanted to provide them with ample chances to discover talents and explore interests, learn languages, go abroad, taste new food, sing new songs, learn how others live, understand what others think and realize why different does not mean better or worse. ​​Just different.

Cooking up opportunities!

​These were the criteria: ​ ​Early enough in life to make good
​use of the most formative learning years. 
Easy enough to give red tape no chance to mess things up.
Affordable enough for family budgets. 
​Exciting enough to make kids long for wider horizons.  

​Then: enjoyable enough to make them curious for more and to get them to tell their friends about it. 
Flexible enough to adjust to growing bodies, minds and ambitions. And, finally, safe enough by ​letting
​youngsters discover the world ​within a global network of reliable and committed ​families.

News from the Opportunity Kitchen - January 2021:

For the first ten years, families matched their haves and wants here in bilateral partnerships to open new doors into the world.  The Brexit referendum and the US elections in 2016 marked the beginning of a decidedly more political approach in many families. The Fridays for Future movement made our youngsters call for intense collaboration, and we started "a bolder bond". Then came 2020 and the pandemic.
In lockdown, kids, parents and grandparents alike asked for new, more dynamic ways of using the community to build a stronger future. So that's what we did. The opportunity kitchen became our superpower platform for the 2020ies.

Please use the dropdown menu above to see how much the opportunity kitchen has to offer!
Everything on our menu can be summed up in one ​glorious word:

Opportunities!
Opportunities to learn a new language, to master a new skill, to meet new people and discover new thoughts and ideas.  Chances to try out a job or a workplace, a sport or an instrument, a lifestyle or a philosophy, a culture or an environment. 
​Options for one child's special needs and for another's exceptional talents, possibilities to tackle new challenges and to fathom personal limits.
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And now, of course, opportunities to meet just the right sparring partners, to start new dialogues and achieve goals together. Across all borders.
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CONNECTED by a BOLDER BOND

Fridays for Future: Our community stands for environmental responsibility. ​Our children are part of Greta's generation. 
​For particularly engaged and committed young activists we started the BOLDER BOND program​ to introduce them to mentors. Over the next years, our focus will be on environ-mental ambitions and education for climate change action. Global Natives for Future: Please learn more here to see how qualified experts and interested young idealists come together! ​We even have a few Nobel laureates "on offer" ;))

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In years to come, no one should ever have to say: "Sadly, we didn't have the opportunities back then." 

The Opportunity Kitchen is tapping into the community's accumulated intelligence for synergies: Ambitious youngsters keen to work for the planet and for society can count on support! 
For a taste of what's possible please have a look at the case studies, they are a storybook of human potential brought to play.
Our grant scheme, Bolder Bond Mentoring and Political Superpowers give you a clear picture of the tremendous scope of possibilities!
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