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Czech nannies for children of Vietnamese families

education, private initiative, Vietnamese minority, nannies, language 

project leader

Czech nannies for children of Vietnamese families

city

Cheb

country

Czech Republic

year

1990s - ongoing

kind of project

informal practice

kind of actor

private organization

area

education

more info

Often, children from migrant families encounter difficulties in the school system. Insufficient performance at school leads to the deepening of segregation. The presented practice, the day-care of Vietnamese children by Czech host families, is an example for a surprisingly informal and successful grass-root-strategy, which developed apparently spontaneously in the Czech city of Cheb. It is one of the factors that paved the way for the renowned educational success of the city’s large Vietnamese minority’s second generation

Project education