The Bridge

proposes a joint program to improve relations between Norwegians and the other groups living in Norway. As a measure against violence, mobbing, and racism.
The BRIDGE focuses on children and youth. At its center, an educational program aiming at training kids in the art of meeting other kids, of making and developing lasting relationships. The art of living.
It helps kids to better knowledge about themselves, their place, their rights, their friends and families, roots. It includes organized sharing with new friends. It is an agenda for joint discussions and activities. It motivates kids to read and write. To collaborate.
Better insights in themselves and their conditions give more strength to survive in an increasingly open world. More knowledge of others reduces racism, mobbing, and violence. It is a way of strengthening weaker groups, without taking away from the stronger. It is a way of helping outsiders integrate in a society. It positively impacts kids' physic health. It helps strengthen languages, çultures, roots.

's multi-lingual Who-Am-I? program motivates teachers to act as "change agents" by providing them with links from the seemingly unrelated act of making friends to their curriculums. It shows them how to turn kids into motivated learners by helping them achieve their individual objectives.
Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, kindergartens, libraries, museums, youth clubs, hospitals, and asylums are also invited into the process, as well as communities around the world.
Together with The Arendal International Children's Cultural Week, we invite cities, municipalities, and organizations in Norway, as well as in other countries, to become partners and collaborators.

Kidlink has over 10 years experience with the completion of large and smaller projects. The largest is the development of Who-Am-I? It was developed in 1997-1999 by an international team within a budget of US$ 219.000.

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