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SPEAK - Share your world

SPEAK is social tech startup that connects migrants, refugees and locals through a language and culture exchange program helping them to feel integrated in the city where they moved to. It breaks barriers, promotes multilingualism, equality and democratizes language learning. Things like cultural incomprehension, stereotypes, language barrier and ignorance lead to xenophobia, unemployment, criminality and many others. SPEAK aims at solving this social exclusion issue. SPEAK fulfils the social mission of integrating citizens through the value of their diversity. It's cultural and language exchange programme where anyone can apply as a student and/or a volunteer teacher allowing people from different cultures to meet, learn and share knowledge. SPEAK, as a whole, is a social business with a clear social mission and priorities. Its commercial offer aims only at ensuring financial sustainability.