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A refugee from war-torn Syria, the ten-year-old girl who wants to be a doctor, was...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eDespite only arriving in the country last year, Nour already speaks German with a fluency that only a child can achieve in such a small space of time. A refugee from war-torn Syria, the ten-year-old girl who wants to be a doctor, was able to sing one of Germany's most famous songs, performing German pop duo Rosenstolz's \"Ich bin ich\" (\"I am me\") at her local school fair to rapturous applause from fellow schoolmates and local parents. Nour's parents, Mahmoud Alahmad Alhammash and Mervat Seikh Mohamed, proudly filmed their daughter as she sang. With negative headlines on the refugee crisis and a vibrant debate in her adoptive country on the effects of migration on local communities, Nour and her school offer an example of cooperation that provides a glimmer of hope in a story that is so often filled with sadness. Indeed, without Nour and her family the community in the small German border town of Golzow might not have a first-grade at their local school.Unable to find the 15 students it needed to set up a first-grade class, Golzow's authorities convinced two Syrian families, including three children of school age, to move and settle in their small town on the Polish border. A year ago, following concerns that Golzow would need to close its primary school because of its declining population, the town's leaders went to a migrant reception centre in nearby Eisenhuettenstadt and persuaded the families to move.The two families, that include Nour and her family, and fellow school students Kamala and Bourhan and their parents, were the first to move into the town from the local shelter. Now joined by another family of recent arrivals, together the three Syrian families have ensured the revival of a school that at its peak had up to 700 students. Roaa's family only arrived in Golzow this year in January.She is another first-grader, who also performed at the school's talent fair, but with limited German, she decided to perform a traditional Arabic song to a similarly warm reception from parents and classmates.  A man from a nearby village, who speaks Arabic, helped the newcomers in the early months but now the three Syrian families, are keen to speak German - even insist on doing so.Halima Taha, 29, the mother of students Kamala and Bourhan, who moved to Golzow with husband Fadi Sayed Ahmed and their three children, has just started a part-time job as a translator at a home for refugees in a nearby town.Her work includes translating rental contracts for newcomers seeking a long-term place to live.It's certainly a change of scene for the family, who come from the coastal city of Latakia and spent a year in Turkey before moving on to Germany.More than that, however, Halima's husband Fadi Sayed Ahmed has had to take the back seat as his wife goes off to work, a dramatic change from when he ran a successful real estate company back home. Golzow has lost nearly a third of its population since German reunification, a phenomenon seen in many parts of the east after communist-era industry and collective farms went out of business or downsized. As Germany begins to integrate hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees from the Arab world and beyond who arrived last year, the quiet German border town offers a small-scale taste of how migration can bring revival to an area struggling with depopulation. Golzow's dwindling population has taken a toll over the years on the school, which the town named \"The Children of Golzow\" in a nod to its main claim to fame, a documentary film project of the same name that followed a class of schoolchildren from 1961 to 2007. In 2008 it lost its top four grades and was reduced to an elementary school - it now has some 130 pupils. This year, town leaders say they have enough children for a first grade, though they're still waiting for the official green light.Despite only arriving in the country last year, Nour already speaks German with a fluency that only a child can achieve in such a small space of time. A refugee from war-torn Syria, the ten-year-old girl who wants to be a doctor, was able to sing one of Germany's most famous songs, performing German pop duo Rosenstolz's \"Ich bin ich\" (\"I am me\") at her local school fair to rapturous applause from fellow schoolmates and local parents. Nour's parents, Mahmoud Alahmad Alhammash and Mervat Seikh Mohamed, proudly filmed their daughter as she sang. With negative headlines on the refugee crisis and a vibrant debate in her adoptive country on the effects of migration on local communities, Nour and her school offer an example of cooperation that provides a glimmer of hope in a story that is so often filled with sadness. Indeed, without Nour and her family the community in the small German border town of Golzow might not have a first-grade at their local school.Unable to find the 15 students it needed to set up a first-grade class, Golzow's authorities convinced two Syrian families, including three children of school age, to move and settle in their small town on the Polish border. A year ago, following concerns that Golzow would need to close its primary school because of its declining population, the town's leaders went to a migrant reception centre in nearby Eisenhuettenstadt and persuaded the families to move.The two families, that include Nour and her family, and fellow school students Kamala and Bourhan and their parents, were the first to move into the town from the local shelter. Now joined by another family of recent arrivals, together the three Syrian families have ensured the revival of a school that at its peak had up to 700 students. Roaa's family only arrived in Golzow this year in January.She is another first-grader, who also performed at the school's talent fair, but with limited German, she decided to perform a traditional Arabic song to a similarly warm reception from parents and classmates.  A man from a nearby village, who speaks Arabic, helped the newcomers in the early months but now the three Syrian families, are keen to speak German - even insist on doing so.Halima Taha, 29, the mother of students Kamala and Bourhan, who moved to Golzow with husband Fadi Sayed Ahmed and their three children, has just started a part-time job as a translator at a home for refugees in a nearby town.Her work includes translating rental contracts for newcomers seeking a long-term place to live.It's certainly a change of scene for the family, who come from the coastal city of Latakia and spent a year in Turkey before moving on to Germany.More than that, however, Halima's husband Fadi Sayed Ahmed has had to take the back seat as his wife goes off to work, a dramatic change from when he ran a successful real estate company back home. Golzow has lost nearly a third of its population since German reunification, a phenomenon seen in many parts of the east after communist-era industry and collective farms went out of business or downsized. As Germany begins to integrate hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees from the Arab world and beyond who arrived last year, the quiet German border town offers a small-scale taste of how migration can bring revival to an area struggling with depopulation. Golzow's dwindling population has taken a toll over the years on the school, which the town named \"The Children of Golzow\" in a nod to its main claim to fame, a documentary film project of the same name that followed a class of schoolchildren from 1961 to 2007. In 2008 it lost its top four grades and was reduced to an elementary school - it now has some 130 pupils. This year, town leaders say they have enough children for a first grade, though they're still waiting for the official green light.AP TELEVISIONGolzow - 27 May 2016 1. Sign with city name, \"Golzow\"2. Driving shot of street and houses3. Outdoor area at Golzow school, zoom in to school sign4. Various of children arriving for talent show at school5. Pupil at Golzow school and refugee from Damascus in Syria, Nour El Hud Alahmad Alhammash, performing on stage6. Parents of Nour filming7. Nour on stage, audience clapping8. SOUNDBITE (German) Mervat Seikh Mohamed, Nour El Hud Alahmad Alhammash's mother:\"Wow, Nour sings well in German and all the children are saying that she did well and hug her. Me and my heart are very happy now.\"9. SOUNDBITE (German) Mahmoud Alahmad Alhammash, Nour El Hud Alahmad Alhammash's father:\"We are very happy here in Golzow. My family is staying here in Golzow, not going to Munich or Hamburg. We are staying here.\"10. Various of Nour playing outside with other children11. Nour's father walking and pointing 12. SOUNDBITE (German) Nour El Hud Alahmad Alhammash, pupil at Golzow school and refugee from Damascus in Syria:\"I like that I can learn at school and that the teacher says that I am good.\"13. Syrian refugee families sitting together, Kamala (in grey dress) and brother Bourhan (in blue checked shirt), daughter and son of Halima Taha (in pink heascarf) and Fadi Sayed Ahmed (Purple checked shirt)14. Syrian refugee girl Roaa (white shirt), a first grader whose family recently arrived in the town, among German schoolmates waiting for cotton candy15. Roaa eating cotton candy16. Pupils having faces painted, eating cotton candy17. SOUNDBITE (German) Frank Schuetz, Mayor of Golzow:\"If we had allowed this school to crumble away (if there were not enough students), we also would have had to accept families saying: 'You can't move to Golzow, your children will have to go to school somewhere else'.\"18. Various of children playing19. Nour waiting to play, talking to friend20. SOUNDBITE (German) Frank Schuetz, Mayor of Golzow:\"Of course they didn't know Golzow at all, they had no idea what they were getting themselves into, but they saw a chance to get out of the strange situation of living in tents and were willing to move to Golzow.\"21. Mother and father of Roaa seated, with Roaa's younger sister eating cotton candy22. Various of children having faces painted23. Principal of Golzow school, Gaby Thomas (left), walking in schoolyard 24. SOUNDBITE (German) Gaby Thomas, Principal of Golzow school: \"If we had had a lot of time to think about what problems we could face, and lost ourselves in that, it maybe wouldn't have worked out so well. We did a lot of things spontaneously, and the families were incredibly cooperative.\"Vossberg - 27 May 201625. Refugee shelter entrance26. Halima Taha (pink head scarf), Syrian refugee from Latakia, at buffet surrounded by children27. Taha greeting local resident28. Refugees carrying food29. SOUNDBITE (German) Halima Taha, Syrian refugee from Latakia:\"I arrived 11 months ago and that's my first opportunity (to get a job). I speak good German. I can help refugees from Syria and other Arabic speaking countries and it is a good opportunity for me. At home my husband is always helping with my three kids, people in Golzow are always helping too. Everyone helps here.\"30. Tilt up of Taha cutting food31. SOUNDBITE (German) Fadi Sayed Ahmed, Halima Taha's husband:\"It is a very good opportunity for my wife. I hope to find a job too. I'm looking for it. I want a job as well.\"32. Taha clapping to music, zoom in to Mervat Seikh Mohamed and tilt up to Taha 33. 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