what do you think about when you are afghanistan
hear what pictures are there
through the head
Remember they even her pictures
I’ll come back to that right away
this picture what you see up there
could be from any european country
come
But it is actually from Afghanistan
and indeed from the 70s so
Afghanistan was once in the seventies
at least in the cities for years
modern you see there three female students
and the pictures that go through my head
when i go to afghanistan
Think back then it is the
Hospitality if it is the beautiful
nature
then it is the colorful beautiful life that
I am sure that I am one
Much of my childhood in Germany
was allowed to spend and thus also the
war could process well but could
certainly also in my parents house
most of the people in Afghanistan
think a war of destruction
oppression and that is as well
not surprising because for over 30 years
years in afghanistan war prevails
And that was why we were back then
have left our home
It is important to me here too
say that people are the most
People do not live without their homeland
leaving her at home all that I am
have built their social
live their social life
but often the war also a reason
can be for that
they then embark on the flight that
often these days as well
life-threatening she does not know
what she expects if she’s somewhere
be accepted if you are welcome
if they are allowed to stay there
whether you should learn the language or
in the morning maybe again
So many things go back with them
the people today the refugees
employ
me and we as a family had that
luck that we are in the early 90s
in Löningen that a small village on
Bodensee landed over many
could restart there in a roundabout way
for us was for us kids was that there
the state simply but my father the
a few years earlier to germany
came
also in baden württemberg in stuttgart
was allowed to live the first three years
not not work through the city
there was no exit at that time
language courses he has 200 d mark to
had disposal where he then too
he saw that most of it
maybe actually spared around
so we catch up for many is the
It’s not really easy
but as we say we were lucky
we landed in this little village
where people drive accessible where
the people were open and now too
have supported and welcome us
yes and glad we were there and as
I have been enrolled then I am
I have been asked in school what I have
I want to be one day then
i will be happy to become a doctor because of me
seen in Afghanistan as little
and how much she needs
be in the world and I am then from
my classmates and also from the
one or two teachers for it
smiled at because they said
that does not fit together you are here
at the Hauptschule then parents are
non-academics are not doctors
However, set realistic goals
Nevertheless, I am my way
gone and pursued my goals
I’ll be up after high school
the realschule then on the
high school made my high school diploma
After my civil service then medicine
Studied and it was there
difficult at first because the fellows
may be yes were much better came from
completely different houses has a better one
But the high school graduation cut with some diligence
and support because it is possible that
In the end we too have one
successfully complete a medical degree
could
mostly important to me after my studies
What to see from the world I wanted
I got to know other cultures
after high school not this possibility
I just wanted to get out with people
live together and you better too
understand because I find that we are in the
other people have to go out there
culture and getting to know each other and
not just about books and media
I almost got it in the one year old
Travel also made various projects
accompanied and when I returned
I started a startup and where
students in real life together
where we are a problem
have seen what lhon solve
wanted to
I still have my doctorate
completed yes and today I am as
Entrepreneurs and I want to use
of my life show to what extent
but integration can succeed once
he is also one more
Opportunities for all of us offers
I have set up five theses
I’m closer in detail now
would go down
first point to speak a language
Language is really the key to
integration
I want it a try on an example
show my life because language is
we need not only to be different
to understand but also to understand
and I’m like I said in the
fifth grade at that time in some
been trained and should what
I could not read aloud
still writing
so teacher had said okay that
class teacher then you stay every day
an hour longer and we learn
that together I’ll teach you this
and I am then an hour every day
stayed longer and have with me
The teacher together, so to speak
my first book was lilly the learned
lesemaus so I have it, so to speak
learned to read and write but it was
not obvious that the
teacher who sacrifices his leisure time for it
to learn to read and write to me
why but he made heart and that
an important mosaic was one of
many so that I also go my way
could
second point invest in education as
I say it will also be talked about
also in the media that we are more into the
education must invest that education
yes our future is and that is
actually really have my parents
Never had the chance to attend a school
to visit
So in that sense they are almost illiterate
but they are very important
that we have a good one
get school education because they have seen
have that education the gateway to the world
is that education look now
opened opportunities and they have
us with your options
Supports you as well as you could
could sit down with us while the
and learn with us but they have us
motivated and shown us ways and in
your possibilities completely
support and not just the
Schooling but you have us too
Going there motivates us with that
Openness in this country because you are on
others should learn from others
We should also go to church
should and about other religions
so not only this is to be exchanged
school education but also this
Informal education is very important
and they were right
my oldest brother is
is industrial mechanic and the other
football professional has in the vfl wolfsburg
the youth played at the youngest
made his master in bwl third
point mentor find
I think one’s own will is
Of course, very important if you yourself
then nobody wants to help you
but beside the sake
next to the parenting house of openness
Motors can mentor a whole
be important support
for example, just about things
to exchange where you might be on the
parents can not go and also there
a little story from my youth
as we in ohling in this small
village arrived
then it was on over the holiday season
a sunday morning that the older one
lady with her son standing by the door
with fully packed bags
rang when we opened
she meant she herself has the
witnessed the second world war and she
I know what it’s like to start over
would like to welcome us here and
she wants to support us and
to get along
This older elderly lady came for
every sunday then thank god not
more so bad early because he likes to stay longer
but they came everytime
sunday and out of it is a friendship
Sometime she has to
family belonged and there was for us in
the action with which we simply go to
exchange example about studying
could
she saw that we did the grammar
we apply that we
comply with table manners
and she was it they were just us
daughter so mulled the
Muslims and they were evangelos did that
wonderful fourth point works
looking for a community and that’s for sure
a point that many may not
so on the screen
of course it is important that the people
But the language also learns exactly
just as important is the community
to seek in our case it was the
sports club what the football club as
we have been trained
Football was in the local football
a place at the place approached us
and asked us if we do not
like to play soccer and we like
wanted to play football and that was what
very important for us is children because
we learned early on yes yes team
to have learned early
disciplined to enforce us
there you have to bring endurance you have to
deal with setbacks
there are all important things you
not only for sports needs but
also in other areas also for
live and I would advise anyone today
if you go to another country in another
Of course, land is learning the language
but just there to seek the community
no we even make contacts because there
Friendships arise like that
stop now
Fifth, give something back
I think that is actually
Of course if you help
got when a people
have supported that someday
sometimes even unconsciously begins to others
help
that was the case with me
during my school days and
study time not in different
He was involved in social projects
did not volunteer or did
as with my parents and also at
it is me today that we are now
refugees who arrive now whether it is
now with my parents the Afghan
Refugees are not at all families
are or with me
Syrian refugees so Syrian
doctors where our experience
pass on
it is to go back but also means
the man who helped a
So in our case, for example, the homer as
the older became us
of course that we are in the garden
help in the household or with her to one
go to the doctor
but it is going beyond
all at the generation at the second
generation in the generation the good
is trained
they settle in other areas
also join and get involved with me
for example, the newly founded
Party Democracy Movement Where I die
stands for cosmopolitanism and diversity
and that stands for grassroots democracy and
I also want to party around the party
from all countries the quasi in
Germany live young people the
we want to include that yours
ideas contribute their solution because
Politics affects us all
and they have good solutions and where the
Ideas and that’s what we want there when I’m on
promote yes to finally on few
things to deal with, so I’m glad that
me him so very different
cultures could grow up and these
different influences too
I acted on what I’m sure
also a bit in my character
reflects
be it the serenity of the
afghan that things are not so tight
sees or even these German
this ambition contributes to what
Achieve and that’s good too
compatible with each other
I have both citizenships and
i see myself as afghane
but also as a German that’s good
Compatible with each other you have to be there
do not opt for a nation or
for a country i feel so both
countries attracted
but if we are our family yourself
look
whether now is the time as we do to
Germany have fled and also
today many of us would have one
Integration not trusted
let alone that we have a new one here
find your home because we come from one
Islamic country my parents are not
my parents have great academic
worthy of ours
Roots of our culture do not forget
that we speak our mother tongue at home
fits to speak
but they also have us
Cosmopolitan hard work and
justice and you see
Today that integration succeed anyway
can
that does not depend on which one
religion one has or from which country
one comes but integration of the
integration, other factors are important
and it’s a combination of both
Factors just once the human being of me
Arrives bring this openness but
also the human being is opposite
maybe a bit too
supports and welcomes people
and i am grateful for that i am in
Germany was allowed to grow up too
was allowed to lead in freedom great
that this education was allowed to enjoy
I am thankful to the people who are mine
helped without me today
probably could not stand here
could and therefore they can
the teacher will be the one in the leisure time
a refugee in the German Alps
help
without the cma shows the new ways
or simply the human being the other
people from other countries with the
smile means welcome and I think
It’s a nice thought in a world too
live with open borders that you can
mutually supported each other
does not learn to look like a stranger
but as friends
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