Tornbjerg Gymnasium is a Danish upper secondary school located in Odense, the third largest city in Denmark and the birth place of the poet Hans Christian Andersen. The school was founded in 1978 to meet the demand for upper secondary education in the area.
Recently, the school has undergone extensive expansion and modernization creating a better and more interesting environment for teaching, learning and extra-curricular activities.
With our proximity to the University of Southern Denmark, we cooperate with the university in a number of ways throughout the school year. We are located in the southeast part of Odense 7 km from the city center.
Recently, the school has undergone extensive expansion and modernization creating a better and more interesting environment for teaching, learning and extra-curricular activities.
With our proximity to the University of Southern Denmark, we cooperate with the university in a number of ways throughout the school year. We are located in the southeast part of Odense 7 km from the city center.
Tornbjerg is working very closely with Kijani Institute on establishing and in finding two partner schools in Kenya, preferably high schools, for a co-learning and cross cultural communication programme. Already Kijani Institute has been visiting the Kenya High School in Kileleshwa and the Nairobi School in Westlands Nairobi and hopes are high for the start of a programme.
Tornbjerg Gymnasium was facilitated by Kijani Institute with a team visit during the winter of 2016 to have more talks with the schools and further plan on a way forward. The first trip for them was made possible by a DANIDA grant made earlier in the year. Thanks again Danida for making this trip possible.
Since 2016, teachers from Kenya have been in Denmark, and in 2018, a group of students and teachers from Tornbjerg, were in Kenya.
Tornbjerg also supports a poor school in Kibera, St. Johns, which is a community driven school.
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You can also reach us on info@kijani-institute.org
This is an example of a visit program:
Program for our Kenyan guests and our hosts. We may have to make changes due to weather, transport issues, cancellations etc.
To the Kenyans
We are having a colder springtime than normal, so it is a good idea to bring some warm clothes.
And remember walking shoes – we are going to walk a lot 🙂
Hosts: When nothing else is mentioned in the program you should take your guest to Tornbjerg at 8.15am, and bring her/him home again at 3.25 pm.
Remember to provide your guest with lunch every day.
Note: Wednesday afternoon the program is not yet fixed – maybe we will have a common activity.
Time and place will be published as quickly as possible
To our Kenyan guests Welcome to Tornbjerg Gymnasium – Karibu!
To our Danish hosts – thank you for opening your home and making this exchange program possible
Tornbjerg Highschool also support to St. Johns Primary school in Kibera.
Kibera er et af de mest kendte slumområder i Afrika. Behovet for at støtte børn og unge er stort. Og gennem den støtte som eleverne fra Tornbjerg Gymnasium har ydet, er det lykkes at forbedre skolens bygninger og ligeledes indkøbe forskellige materialer og ikke mindst skolebøger, som er nødvendigt.
St. Johns skole er en lille privat primary skole fra 1 – 8 klasse, som drives af en tidligere ølkusk Josiah, der fandt ud af, at det var mere nyttigt, at give børn i et af Afrikas største slumområder, en mulighed for at få en grundskole uddannelse. Tornbjerg supports St. Johns Primary school, so the school is able to maintain the buildings and support the pupils with teaching material. In 2017 and 2018 the St. Johns was supported by Tornbjerg.