Kidlink offers the free Who-Am-I? educational program as a means for kids and youth to get friends in other countries. The eight-month, multi-lingual program assists by guiding them to knowledge about themselves, their place, rights, friends, families, roots, and by bringing them in contact with youth around the world.
To teachers, Who-Am-I? is a means to classroom instruction within their curriculum. When students have a purpose (to get friends) and an audience, they want to read and write, and use numbers. They demand knowledge to realize their purpose. Thus, it gives otherwise "boring" classroom tasks meaning for students.
To a community, Who-Am-I? is a means to increase its youth's knowledge and appreciation of their area, people, language, culture, the way the society works, and history. It is also a means to communicate this to outsiders using its students as agents.
Its students will be set to collect and document elements of the community's culture that may be about to get lost, and their publications may be used as learning material in the community's language.

The support challenge

If you want more activity in your language, consider funding someone to support teachers, students, kids, and help get selected student contributions posted to the web.
If you think local teachers need more trainig to use the program fully in their classrooms, consider training them.

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