Hanseatic School for Life
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The Hanseatic School for Life is a non-profit organization in Thailand that cares for children and adolescents in need. The Hanseatic School for Life pursues an educational concept on the basis of the "situational approach", which UNESCO classified as a "... much needed world-class innovative effort in the field of education" and a "new standard of educational excellence for the world community of the 21st century". Through family-like living and project-oriented learning, the children and adolescents gain skills which can give their life a positive direction. The intellectual father of the situational approach is the Berlin educationalist Prof. em. Dr. Jürgen Zimmer,
who founded the International Academy for Innovative Pedagogy, Psychology and Economics gGmbH (INA) at the Free University Berlin.
History
Hanseatic School for Life, formerly Beluga School for Life, in Na Nai ("village in a rice field") near Khao Lak in the south of Thailand was founded by Niels Stolberg and inaugurated in October 2006. The aim was to help the children in Thailand who had lost their parents due to the tsunami in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004.
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