Quinoa
Germany | Started in 2013
Director: Fiona Brunk
fiona.brunk@quinoa-bildung.de
Mission:
Quinoa – a transformational secondary school for currently disadvantaged inner city youngsters in Berlin. It is a German social enterprise that focuses on offering an alternative educational model for children coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. In Wedding, a district in inner-city Berlin, 50% of the children start their school career with language deficits, two thirds of the teenagers live from social welfare support, and 30% leave the school system after 10 years without formal qualifications. Quinoa is looking to respond to the specific educational needs of our community by providing a private secondary school (grades 7-10) in Berlin-Wedding.