Without immigrants and women, the electrical profession will suffer.

Employers and employees in the electrical profession didn’t exactly go Donald Trump’s way when they entered into a collective agreement in the spring that aims to promote diversity in the profession.

28-year-old Filmon Habteab is fixing an electrical outlet at Køge Music School, which is being renovated. Around him on the construction site are men of different ages, but none of them have the same background as Filmon Habteab.

“I’m happy to be an apprentice electrician,” he says in good, but somewhat shaky Danish.