Aybaniz Garadzhaeva in Magdeburg © privat
Aybaniz Garadzhaeva speaks fluent Russian and Ukrainian and is highly sought-after in the German education system thanks to her two diplomas in education. The Ukrainian wants to build a future for her family in Saxony-Anhalt. She sees Magdeburg as a good place to find her new centre of life. And she has now regained her courage, is confident and is looking to the future. "I would also like to stay here and establish myself professionally," says Aybaniz and is looking forward to her first lesson in Germany.
The teacher and social pedagogue from Kharkiv did not expect to have to leave her home country and start her life anew in another country. The young mother loves her job and working with pupils in her home country, Ukraine. When war broke out, her entire life changed. For a long time, the ambitious woman tries to keep the lessons going at her school in order to preserve a bit of normality there. But then nothing works. When the windows of the school are shattered by a detonation right in front of her eyes, she has no strength left either. Together with her children, she embarks on a traumatic 30-hour flight to Germany. The terrified family first travelled via Berlin to Hanover, then back to Berlin and finally to Saxony-Anhalt.
In Magdeburg, Aybaniz Garadzhaeva contacted the state initiative Fachkraft im Fokus through a recommendation and met our regional advisor at the WelcomeCentre, Nataliya Detka. The detailed and very emotional conversation between the two women in their native language gives Aybaniz a sense of security. She quickly gains confidence in our emphatic and knowledgeable regional counsellor. Nataliya Detka explains the priority and sequence of the measures to be taken and immediately contacts the regional education authority. In a very short time, all the important documents are compiled together and sent to the office. Now Aybaniz Garadzhaeva can hardly wait for the feedback and her new career start in Saxony-Anhalt.
www.welcomecenter-sachsen-anhalt.de
The Saxony-Anhalt WelcomeCentre is a service offered by the state's Fachkraft im Fokus initiative, which aims to make it easier for people interested in moving to Saxony-Anhalt and their families to arrive in their old or new home, and to support companies wishing to employ skilled workers from abroad with their professional and social integration.
We are just a phone call away.
Nataliya Detka, Regional Advisor WelcomeCentre (Magdeburg)
detka(at)fachkraft-im-fokus(dot)de | +49 172 8790610
