Laila, originating from Afghanistan, today is a Netherlander who volunteered with the Excellence Center in Europe for a month in 2018. In this
Twenty-five-year-old Laila described her experience by saying that she taught English to different age groups at the Excellence Center. There were children aged six to seven years and also young people aged 18 and 19. She had a great time with them and trying to use all ways to teach them English.
During her stay in Halle city, she met with many of the center’s employees, who came from different countries such as Sudan, Pakistan, Palestine and Syria, and became familiar with their culture, customs and lifestyle through talking to them and going out with them to public places in the city as part of the visits organized by the center for volunteers and interns.
Laila described her experience with the host family as a great experience. She said that she lived for a long time away from her family and living with a host family made feel this family’s atmosphere again. Laila spoke about the little brother in the family and how they were talking about films produced by Disney as well as history and other topics. Besides this, she was talking Arabic to the older brother and practice the language.
The volunteer program in Germany had a great impact on Laila which helped her to get to know people from different countries around the world and to learn
Laila advised everyone to come to Germany and participate in any of the volunteer programs organized by the Center, which aims to build and develop the skills of the community, specifical refugees from different parts of the world in different fields, especially the linguistic field.
