{"id":915,"date":"2018-03-03T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habibicenter.org\/marwa-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T11:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T11:55:56","slug":"marwa-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habibicenter.org\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"MARWA (AFGHANISTAN)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized has-custom-border aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habibicenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Marwa-1920.webp\" alt=\"Marwa MARCH 2018 TO MAY 2019\" style=\"border-radius:50%;object-fit:cover;width:300px;height:300px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">MARWA (AFGHANISTAN)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">MARCH 2018 TO MAY 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">It was a warm day of March when I came to a shelter. I couldn\u2019t speak English but I could understand a bit. I was worried about my future and what will happen. All that without being able to communicate very well.  After a couple of days the social worker of my shelter told me that I will go to an English school called Habibi Center to learn English. In those days I wasn\u2019t well because I missed my family and it was almost 3 months I left them. After 3 months I had found a place where I felt safe and I thought: \u201cokay, I will go but I don\u2019t have money to pay\u201d. With so much suffering I told my social worker: \u201cI don\u2019t want to go because I don\u2019t have money to pay for going to this English school\u201d. She laughed and said: \u201cyou don\u2019t need to pay. It\u2019s a free school. You can go and learn English without paying\u201d. I couldn\u2019t believe and she told me that some girls of my shelter were already going to Habibi Center. When the girls of my shelter came from school I asked one of them and she told me: \u201cyeah, Habibi Center is for us like our second home and you don\u2019t need to pay for learning there\u201d.  I was still doubtful but the next day came and I prepared myself to go there with one of the girls because I didn\u2019t know how to get there. When I reached the school, a girl opened the door and I saw an angel with a peaceful smile. She welcomed us and then she gave me a small test to know my level. After that test she told me: \u201cyou are good at learning and there is no need you start in Basic English\u201d. I started coming to Habibi Center every day from 10:00 to 11:30.  I remember that every day I was with a special passion and interest in coming to class and day by day I improved and I made friends. I remember every night that I thought about Habibi Center before going to sleep.  The days quickly passed until my teacher said: \u201cwe are near to a big exam and you all guys should more push themselves for this exam. That moment I couldn\u2019t understand which exam he was talking about and why we should take this exam. And I was a little bit shy and I didn\u2019t ask about the details of this exam. After class I asked my friends and they told me: \u201cit\u2019s a Cambridge English exam and there is one every 6 months in Athens. The school will pay for it and we can get a certificate from Cambridge to show how much we learned English and open a shine way for our future because English is nowadays an international language\u201d. When I heard all of that I was in shock and I couldn\u2019t express my emotions about how nice my teachers were to sacrifice their time and money to help us to learn a language. That day tears ran down my face and I cried inconsolably. I will never forget that unforgettable day.  Everyday we were going to Habibi Center with willpower and a hard working attitude to pass the Cambridge exam. The day of the exam came and I remembered I had stress but, when I looked at my teacher how they encouraged us for take a good result, my stress changed to power, not only for taking a good result but to make them happy for all the hard work they did for us.  After that exam I took an A2 Certificate and because I had to travel to Netherlands for living l couldn\u2019t continue at Habibi Center.  It was the 5th of May when I left my sweet home, Habibi Center. And on the 8th of May I also left Greece to go to the Netherlands. I should mention that by the blessing of Habibi Center I can speak well English in here and express myself in English.  Sometimes when people ask me: \u201chow did you learn English?\u201d, I tell them about Habibi Center and my teachers. They can\u2019t believe that within a year I was able to learn English so well.  I appreciate my teachers and I want to say thank you for all the hard work and sacrifice teaching English to refugees\u2019 girls and boys to have a good future.  You are unforgettable in our hearts.  With love from the bottom of my heart,  Marwa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARWA (AFGHANISTAN) MARCH 2018 TO MAY 2019 It was a warm day of March when I came to a shelter. I couldn\u2019t speak English but I could understand a bit. I was worried about my future and what will happen. All that without being able to communicate very well. 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