Success story

“I love Stuttgart and its people because they make so much possible for me.”

Maria Grazia Puglia comes from Naples in Italy. She has found a new home in Stuttgart and has trained as an educator.

Maria Grazia received support from the Welcome Center Stuttgart and the partners in its network for the integration of Italian immigrants into the labor market. With the idea of staying in Germany, she came to Stuttgart to do an FSJ with the Italian organization ACLI.

I am very grateful to the Welcome Center Stuttgart: It helped me to find a suitable language course, a health insurance company and a bank.

At the event “Vivere e lavorare in Germania/Living and working in Germany: entering the job market and prospects with an apprenticeship” for Italian migrants, Maria Grazia learned how many opportunities she has in Stuttgart. This also motivated her to find an apprenticeship herself – with success!

In Stuttgart, she first did a practical year in a kindergarten and learned German at the same time in order to start an apprenticeship there this year.

I’m glad that I took the plunge! For me, Stuttgart means independence and autonomy. I can learn many new things here, not just the German language.