Germany's refugees: A tale of three teachers - BBC World Service

Five years on from the refugee crisis of 2015, Germany is now home to over a million refugees. The country has also been struggling to cope with another challenge - its population has been gradually shrinking and there is a shortage workers. So can refugees fill the gap and help Germany solve a problem of its own?
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Naomi Scherbel-Ball reports on a teaching experiment with a difference, retraining refugee teachers and placing them in German schools facing a shortage of 40,000 teachers.
This is the story of three teachers who all came to Germany from Syria and wanted to continue teaching in their new home. Mustafa Hammal after a year’s retraining is now teaching English in school in Mönchengladbach.
Alaa Kassab fled Syria alone and re-trained as a primary school teacher in Potsdam but struggled to find a permanent job afterwards.
And Marwa Abdulkadr who arrived more recently in 2017 has been unable to gain a place on the oversubscribed retraining course, but hopes to try again next year.
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Reporter: Naomi Scherbel-Ball
Director, producer: Ian O’Reilly
Co-producer: Efrem Gebreab
Picture edit: Gordon Watt, Tracy Joss
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[@Nickelog74]

Zahra‘s German is quite good. I had teachers - originally from Italy or Chile - who spoke worse German and that wasn‘t a problem when I was in school in the 80s here in Germany. Anyone who speaks this level of German after 4-5 years deserves a fair chance.

[@jdrancho1864]

Listening to those interviews, it is amazing how the level of English=language competency varies from one teacher to another. Alaa Kasaab has by far the best grasp of the language.

[@kalidass1429]

I love bbc i love this story

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[@ayaamaya1477]

Mustafa ❤️❤️❤️

[@ahmedabdallah8062]

Well, maybe that's a different Germany than the one I've seen

[@MrAbah105]

Especially teaching islam or sharing cultural

[@kuchojoe500]

Open your mind to see the positive