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German students in Guntur
| The team has come on a two-week trip to India |
Fruitful exchange: A team of youth from Germany visited Acharya Nagarjuna University on Monday. —
GUNTUR: A Twelve-member youth team from Germany visited Acharya Nagarjuna University on Monday as part of an exchange programme, and went round several departments to understand the teaching and working culture of the university.
Atheist Centre of Vijayawada, a social change institution founded by Gora and Saraswathi Gora at Mudnur village in Krishna district, had entered into an understanding with German Government in 1996 for such Humanist Youth Exchange programme and this is the sixth team which has arrived in Vijayawada on Monday.
The team has come for a two-week trip to India and as part of its programme it first visited the university on Monday and met Vice-Chancellor V. Balamohandas and other officials of the .university. Stephan and Christine, who are team members are studying medicine and sociology in Jelena University in Germany. And the rest of the team members Benjamin, Julian, Moritz, Christine, Katrine, Marzel, Luie and Eric are in doing their schooling in and around Berlin.
The team was led by Volker Muller and Ilka Pusph and coordinated by Atheist Centre representatives Vijayam and Subrahmanyam.
The Atheist Centre would hold a Youth Conference in Vijayawada on October 18 and 19 and would take the team members to the centre run by the Vasavi Mahila Mandali, Siddhartha Engineering College and Arthik Samata Mandal at Srikakulam in Krishna District.
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