The benefits and the cultural significance of the project are:
Assisting in the decisions to be made for raising bilingual/multilingual children in order to maintain and develop the language/s spoken at home in conjunction with the strategies offered by some experts in the field.
Developing a sense of identity and belonging living in the wider multicultural society.
Understanding and respecting other cultures’ languages, beliefs and their way of living by developing activities and platforms that provide experiences of cultural exchange.
Raising awareness to the wider and minority communities that the maintenance and development of languages and cultural elements have benefits to the society and should be seen as enrichment.
Educating the parents in raising bilingual/multilingual children.
Videos of the topic:Raising Bilingual / Multilingual Children
Raising Children in More Than One Language - The University of Melbourne Conference by Experts in this field. (2017)