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I mentor a young guy who came to Denmark as a refugee a few years ago, we met through the mentor program at the Danish Refugee Council.

After two years of courses in math, physics, English, biology and Danish he finally got accepted into university and has his first day today studying robotics.

Signed up to help out at http://www.hackyourfuture.net/ as well, seems like an amazing project.

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Did you speak English, or Danish?

I signed up to teach some programming to children in England, but then got a job in Copenhagen before starting. It will be years before my Danish is good enough to understand children in a classroom.

Both, I'm Danish. The guy I mentor is 22 years old now, he already spoke English when he arrived and has since learnt Danish.

You can sign up here:

https://flygtning.dk/frivillig/hvad-vi-laver/mentorprogramme...

There's also Coding Pirates, which is aimed at teaching kids technology, programming, etc.: https://codingpirates.dk/

And Hack Your Future - http://www.hackyourfuture.net/

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