A 'home from home' for key people in tomorrow's world |
For international understanding |
For friendship and support |
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International postgraduate students arriving in Cambridge for the first time often experience problems adjusting to a strange culture, with an unfamiliar language, different foods, climate and customs. It can be lonely and difficult, separated from family and friends back home. Link House is a local Christian response to the needs of these students, who will be returning home in due course, to take up positions of influence in their government, in universities and the professions as well as in industry and commerce. Link House aims to help build bridges of understanding between these key people (of different faiths, cultural backgrounds and many from developing countries) for the future and for world peace. We seek to provide a link connecting them to their new environment, a link of friendship, hospitality, support and help - a real 'home from home'. The Trust has three properties with rooms for up to fifty students spouses and children. Since opening our doors in 1988 more than seven hundred and fifty students from over one hundred countries have enjoyed the experience of living at one of the Link Houses. |