It is about as different as can be imagined from his former life as an officer in the Afghan police force. Photograph: Lucas Wahl/Kollektiv25Most German businesses report positive experiences of hiring refugees, says Stephanie Anders, coordinator of refugee integration at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. And the Bertelsmann Foundation forecasts a shortfall of about 35,000 primary school teachers by 2025. The potential for a solution is there: in 2016, 11,000 of the people who claimed asylum were teachers. “I can’t explain to children who have come to Germany as refugees why it is that they are suddenly here,” Alsayed says.

Source: The Guardian April 10, 2018 04:52 UTC