International students take part in BelSU work teams

Working in student brigades or stroyotryads provides a great opportunity not only of being engaged in activities for the good of nature, the city, and the university, but also of profitably employing the time. Currently, 24 BelSU students from Nigeria, Angola, Cape Verde, Ecuador, Colombia, Congo, China, India, and Paraguay work in the Botanical Garden of Belgorod State University – an object of high scientific and cultural significance in the region.

Students travel to work by a university shuttle that takes them from the university building to the botanical garden and back. All the tools and equipment they might need for work is provided on site.

The main tasks of the students are to help in planting and watering young plants, rooting out the weeds and tidying up on the territory of the botanical garden. Such work does not require prior training nor special qualifications, except for mandatory safety instructions.

Barrera Legizamon Luisa Maria, a student of the Institute of Intercultural Communication and International Relations, was willing to tell about her experience in working in a stroyotryad at the botanical garden.

‘I’ve been working here for several years now. I really like this type of work: it isn’t difficult, you are among the friends, and then it’s in the fresh air! I am glad to contribute to the prosperity of such a beautiful place as the Botanical Garden of Belgorod State University,’ said Luisa Maria.

As Olga Lyutova, Director of the International Information Center of Belgorod State University, noted, the opportunity for international students to come to work in student construction brigades remains available until October.