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2-How was your relationship with the 3- How and when did Dr. Heba start
professors and the simulation models? And working at the United Nations? And

how did that contribute to the future in the how did she reach this position?
practical life? I worked early in the Decision Support
Simulation models have played and still play an Center of the Council of Ministers for
important role in influencing the individual’s five years, but there was a passion for
personality and formation, as they facilitate development and volunteering with
effective communication with others and build international organizations. I went to the
good relationships quickly and easily. Student United Nations Volunteers Center, where
activities enhance the research and organization I was a volunteer at first and participated
skills of students, as they give us strength during in one of the volunteer camps, then after
the interview when applying for a job. They that, I worked at UNICEF, and the
make us engage in negotiations and dialogue on German Society for International
many issues that occur a lot in the labor market. Cooperation, and then after that, I
returned to the United Nations as a state
coordinator.
4- What opportunities does the office

provide to volunteers? And what is the
work of the office?
The office works to provide opportunities
for volunteers to work on achieving the
United Nations goals. There are about

200 volunteers in 17 agencies working
under the umbrella of the United
The relationship with the professors is Nations. Volunteering is the main goal of
characterized by the absence of any kind of the office, as it contributes to achieving
authority between the teacher and the student. the United Nations goals through
Even once, a professor took us to the opera working on various topics. There are

house to watch a play. It was a unique and first- volunteers in research, environment, and
time experience. In addition to learning from communication, and recently volunteers
Dr. Hoda Abdel Nasser, the daughter of the have been working on the developments
former president, it was a different experience. of what is happening in Gaza, and this is
She provided us with comfort in the lecture. of interest to (the United Nations Office
Even once, she made an exam and allowed us to for the Coordination of Humanitarian
open the book. We learned from the professors Affairs, and the United Nations Relief
that there is nothing wrong with the analysis. and Works Agency for Palestine
All the analyses are correct. But each of us Refugees). Volunteering within the
looks from a different angle. And certainly, United Nations differs because
both Dr. Ali El-Din Hilal and Dr. Ahmed volunteering can be a full day with an
Youssef Ahmed - they are one of the distinctive
signs of the faculty - influenced the way of
thinking of the students.

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