The integration of refugee pupils into the school system is not always easy. A German woman, whose heart is attached to Syria and Damascus, launched an initiative that enables students to learn independently under the supervision of specialists. DW Arabia is looking forward to hearing more about this report.
The weather was cloudy and raindrops were falling when we met Mrs. Petra Becker in front of an old building in the upscale Berlin district of Charlottenburg. Mrs. Petra congratulated us on the chanting of Shamya and then waved her hand towards the door of the building as if asking us to enter the large building that is being built to the beginning of the last century. "This large building has been abandoned for more than 15 years. It has now become a space where newcomers meet to participate in fusion programs." The blonde woman briefly described the task that the building had taken over the past two years. She then said that her educational program, Back on Track, is here in one of the halls of the building as a fixed place where children and young people receive knowledge and language support Arabic once a week.
German with open prospects
Ms. Petra is descended from a small village deep in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the west of the Federal Republic of Germany. Once the young woman received her high school diploma at the age of 19 until she acquired the idea of traveling and learning about other cultures, her destination was to the Arab and Muslim world: Tunisia and Turkey. "My visit to these two countries and my great admiration for Arab and Islamic civilization made me the most accurate doors of the University of Munster to study Islamic sciences." She said: "My admiration for Arab and Islamic culture is limitless. I chose to learn Arabic and enter Orientalism at the University of Munster.
She had what she wanted when she became a university student, but she wanted to enter the Arab world and learn the Arabic language in an Arab country. She chose Syria instead of Kuwait, where the cost of living was high compared to that of Syria at the time. Ms. Petra, a young girl at the time of the time, did not intend to stay for a year to master the language of Haddad, then return to university and complete her university studies.
Falling in love with a young man and a city
"I fell in love with a handsome Syrian young man, which made me extend my stay to an additional year instead of one year orphan." Ms. Baker said these words, laughing, and then added that she married him and had two daughters. The German lady and her husband spent only a decade in Germany. Due to the difficult life in the German capital, Berlin, they returned to Damascus.
The weather was cloudy and raindrops were falling when we met Mrs. Petra Becker in front of an old building in the upscale Berlin district of Charlottenburg. Mrs. Petra congratulated us on the chanting of Shamya and then waved her hand towards the door of the building as if asking us to enter the large building that is being built to the beginning of the last century. "This large building has been abandoned for more than 15 years. It has now become a space where newcomers meet to participate in fusion programs." The blonde woman briefly described the task that the building had taken over the past two years. She then said that her educational program, Back on Track, is here in one of the halls of the building as a fixed place where children and young people receive knowledge and language support Arabic once a week.
German with open prospects
Ms. Petra is descended from a small village deep in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the west of the Federal Republic of Germany. Once the young woman received her high school diploma at the age of 19 until she acquired the idea of traveling and learning about other cultures, her destination was to the Arab and Muslim world: Tunisia and Turkey. "My visit to these two countries and my great admiration for Arab and Islamic civilization made me the most accurate doors of the University of Munster to study Islamic sciences." She said: "My admiration for Arab and Islamic culture is limitless. I chose to learn Arabic and enter Orientalism at the University of Munster.
She had what she wanted when she became a university student, but she wanted to enter the Arab world and learn the Arabic language in an Arab country. She chose Syria instead of Kuwait, where the cost of living was high compared to that of Syria at the time. Ms. Petra, a young girl at the time of the time, did not intend to stay for a year to master the language of Haddad, then return to university and complete her university studies.
Falling in love with a young man and a city
"I fell in love with a handsome Syrian young man, which made me extend my stay to an additional year instead of one year orphan." Ms. Baker said these words, laughing, and then added that she married him and had two daughters. The German lady and her husband spent only a decade in Germany. Due to the difficult life in the German capital, Berlin, they returned to Damascus.
Her love for Syria did not stop with the death of her husband, who died before the outbreak of the "Syrian revolution." She refused to remain with her two daughters in a home where she felt safe and warm. However, the deterioration of the security situation in Al-Ghouta, where she was living, made her leave with her two daughters, her Syrian mother, whom she loved to leave Berlin again.
"Avoiding" mistakes of the past and "response" to the beautiful
"On the track, I mean to go back on the track." With these two short phrases, Mrs. Shakra translated her educational program, which she sent to life in 2016, in a group dormitory in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin, and moved on to the old building. On the start of the program, the project's creator said: "We were surprised by the great desire of those wishing to participate in the educational classes, despite the large number and small room that was provided to us by the collective overnight, we absorbed all the children." Initially, there were 120 children.
The source of the idea, as the German orientalist says, is: "We want to avoid the mistakes of the 1980s. There was no interest in Arab children and young people fleeing the civil war. They did not master their mother tongue or German, Rehabilitation and integration ". "I want to give children who are victims of war the most beautiful thing - coping and succeeding in a new society," she said.
Self-education"
To succeed in her mission, she brought in a group of Syrian and Arab academics to oversee the outstanding teaching program. The project is based on the revised UNICEF curriculum to support Syrian children in mathematics, science and Arabic in a self-learning manner. The program's academics are not teachers, but supervisors who do not help when needed.
"Avoiding" mistakes of the past and "response" to the beautiful
"On the track, I mean to go back on the track." With these two short phrases, Mrs. Shakra translated her educational program, which she sent to life in 2016, in a group dormitory in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin, and moved on to the old building. On the start of the program, the project's creator said: "We were surprised by the great desire of those wishing to participate in the educational classes, despite the large number and small room that was provided to us by the collective overnight, we absorbed all the children." Initially, there were 120 children.
The source of the idea, as the German orientalist says, is: "We want to avoid the mistakes of the 1980s. There was no interest in Arab children and young people fleeing the civil war. They did not master their mother tongue or German, Rehabilitation and integration ". "I want to give children who are victims of war the most beautiful thing - coping and succeeding in a new society," she said.
Self-education"
To succeed in her mission, she brought in a group of Syrian and Arab academics to oversee the outstanding teaching program. The project is based on the revised UNICEF curriculum to support Syrian children in mathematics, science and Arabic in a self-learning manner. The program's academics are not teachers, but supervisors who do not help when needed.
As for her mission as a supervisor, the Syrian expatriate Shatha Ahmed said in an exclusive DW statement: "I supervised the English language and the Arabic language takes a great deal of my work with the children. This generation must remain in constant contact with the Arab civilization because it is part of it." Sheba is studying at the University of Berlin and her relationship with the school and the children return to her life in Damascus where she attended classes in a private school belonging to her mother where she learned the teaching alphabet. What helped her to support children in weekly classes was "the urgent need for support and the increasing number of children willing to participate in these classes."
Parents have their say
The enthusiasm is not only for the project manager or for the education supervisors, but also for the parents, like Mr. Abdel Wahab Al Zoghbi, whom DW Arabia met in the garden of the building with his two daughters, who attend without interruption. "I think this program is appropriate and in line with the needs and needs of the children. My children's impressions and experiences are very positive. " My daughter, Mr. Abdel Wahab, is visiting the project for more than a year. He says that his eldest daughter has been able to improve his level in secondary school and notes that his youngest daughter, who is still in the elementary stage, Mr. Abdul Wahab, the newcomer coming from the city of Idlib Moataz and proud of this program and what Petra Becker offers to Syrian children and young people and advises the newcomers children to take advantage of this outstanding show in the city.
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