Find out more on why students volunteer nowadays. How much do they learn and how much do they actually give back?This is a 4:30 minute segment of an interview with Walid Hussien from Yemen, a petroleum engineering senior at the American University in Cairo.
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Interview 1: Civic
Engagement
Interview Transcript
Interviewer: Samah Ali
Narrator: Walid
Hussien
Dates: October 15,
2012
Place: Room 2008,
Library, AUC New
Cairo, Egypt
College: The American
University in Cairo (AUC)
Prof.: Dr. Kim Fox
Date completed: October
17, 2012
Samah Ali Walid Hussien Interview 1/1
October 15, 2012
Persons Present: S - Samah Ali,
W - Walid Hussien
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Walid Hussien, petroleum
engineering senior at AUC |
[00:00 – 00:04] S: How would you define civic engagement?
[00:04 – 00:36] W: Civic engagement is being involved in
activities that develop and … develop the community and aim at engaging the
community, not just providing service to them. But engaging them so that they
would benefit themselves.
[00:26 – 00:29] S: Do you feel it is benefitting the
Egyptian Society?
[00:29 – 00:39] W: I feel community service is benefitting
the Egyptian society and every society if done well, sufficiently.
[00:39 – 00:42] S: What are you involved in?
[00:42 – 01:08] W: I
am involved in, I was involved in so many clubs, and I still am. For example, I
was involved in the AYB club, Help club, theater club, and SPE club, Pinch club,
and I was a co-founder and project head of the women empowerment club.
[01:08 – 01:11] S: Why did you start volunteering?
[01:11 – 01:34] W: I started volunteering because I wanted
to fulfill my free times and I thought it would be a great way to do that, and
to gain a lot of experience, and to make connections, it gives me a lot of
self-satisfaction to help others.
[01:34 – 01:37] S: Describe your experience at AYB.
[01:37 – 02:38] W: My experience at AYB was very very
enriching, and it opened my horizons, especially after that I got to teach
English for a group of unprivileged people in the community of Ein El-Seera,
which is a very poor and undeveloped community. I got exposed to that
community, which I use to think that going to downtown, and such places is the
worst Egypt can be, but when I went there I saw how hard their lives were and
yeah, how difficult it was for them to sustain that life for themselves and
their children and yet they made time for education. It was very interesting.
[02:38 – 02:42] S: What would a typical workday at AYB be
like?
[02:42 – 03:46] W: A typical workday at AYB would be like,
me going to the place, the Ein El-Seera, a little place for youth. It’s like a
small cultural center and sports center and then I go to the classroom, I wait
a little bit for people, they come in and greet me, they’re of different ages,
I used to teach mothers and their children in the same class and …. I ask them
questions about their days and they ask me questions about mine; where I come
from, and things about my culture, they used to ask me questions about that
more than they asked me questions about the teaching material, and at the end
of the class, we talk for a little bit. They promise to bring me food and they
would cook me for the next time, and everything and they’re very friendly and
then I go home.
[03:46 – 03:50] S: Would you say AYB is a good example for
the Egyptian youth?
[03:50 – 04:31] W: I think AYB is to a big extent a good
example for the Egyptian youth, because they involve themselves in so many
activities, and they are very committed, very very committed. My head and my
project head and a lot of the members there are very committed; they spend so
much time planning for things and running meetings, preparing materials and
yeah …
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