25-year-old Saskia Scholten wins along with 13 other young women and men of the Federal President Christian Wulff with the Medal of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The ceremony will took place in the park of Schloss Bellevue. The awardees are all 25 to 31 years old. Overall, the President has invited 170 young people committed to the celebration. Saskia Scholten has worked in a special way for partnership working in Rwanda.
Saskia Scholten was born in 1986 in Landau. Their spiritual roots lie in the Old Catholic parishes in Landau and Karlsruhe. Since 1993 she is member of the German scouts St. George. "The scouts I've learned with open eyes to go through life, to look and me to form my opinion - but to stand and to act accordingly," said Ms. Scholten. She was one of 200,000 Scouts and Boy Scouts in Germany, the world would leave little better than they found them ..
In 2005, she went through a volunteer service for five months after Rwanda. There she has taught include AIDS orphans in English. She describes her experiences in a Rwanda-diary (published in Iatros-Verlag). The proceeds from the book sale is a social project for orphans in the twin city of Landau, Ruhango benefit. In January 2011, Ms. Scholten finished her psychology degree and continuing to make a psychological psychotherapist.
"I can hardly believe that I was just selected" as Saskia Scholten. "To a certain extent I take the Merit also representative of many Scouts and Girl Scout, and otherwise contrary to Committed."
The other awardees are committed to including environmental and climate change, international and intercultural youth work, in the prevention of sexual violence, for children of parents who died of AIDS in the volunteer fire department and in the international dialogue among Christian youth.
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