Betina Seibold has been head of the Evangelical family support center in Wiesbaden for 13 years. The center provides assistance to people from birth, with a large number of offers for children and their parents. Frau Seibold mainly helps the work of Wiesbaden International on the youth support committee and on the committee for children and families.
For her, it is important to enable all adolescents to take part in international encounters, to experience for themselves how people live in other countries, and to see their own city from a different perspective as a result. They bring their experiences back to Wiesbaden and arouse other young people’s curiosity. They encourage them to explore the world and to be open-minded about other people and cultures.
The task of the adults is to be open-minded themselves, and in so doing, to act as a role model in their own city, to promote such an attitude and to create opportunities for people from other countries to meet each other here.
For example, cookery workshops are organized in the Evangelical family support center, where adolescents not only get to know dishes from other countries, but also cook together with youngsters from a whole range of different countries.
Meeting people of different origins is the basis for enabling people to live happily side by side with each other in society.