November 3, 2021/ Socotra Online
Reporting and Photography: Editorial Team
The opening of 12 classrooms at the Ali bin Abi Talib School in the Dehmed District on the western coast of Socotra Island, with the support of the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, witnessed great joy from the sheikhs, political and social figures and the people, which ended the problem of overcrowding in the classrooms that the school suffered from throughout the previous periods.
Socotra Online website was present at the opening and monitored the impression of the views of the present personalities, where the beginning was with the first representative of the governorate, Raed Al-Juraibi, who expressed his happiness at the opening of 12 new classrooms equipped with school furniture at Ali Bin Abi Talib School, funded by the Khalifa Foundation, as it contributes to raising The school’s carrying capacity and ends the problem of overcrowding in previous periods.
Pointing out that the Dehmed district is one of the areas from which many leaders who have a major role in leading the governorate and serving it, including the late of Socotra and the homeland, Ahmed bin Hamdoun, have left, and it continued to provide the best of its children in various sectors on the island.
Al-Juraibi praised the role of the Khalifa Foundation in supporting various sectors of life in the archipelago, especially the education sector, which witnessed stability and development in light of its continuous support, as well as the rehabilitation of a constellation of students for university studies to serve the island and advance its reality for the better.
For his part, Fouad Ali Saeed, Director of Education in the Hadiboh District, praised the UAE’s continuous support to the education sector in Socotra and meeting its most basic requirements to maintain its stability and raise its quality.
They added that the opening today of the new expansion of the Ali Bin Abi Talib School in Dehmed has an effective impact on reducing overcrowding in the school, which includes a large number of areas in the western coastal strip, a step that brought great happiness to the faces of education sector officials, parents, teachers and students on this joyful day.
The Director of Education in Hadiboh said that the Emirati support for education is broad and includes many, including the sponsorship of contracting with more than 400 teachers to fill the shortage of teachers in schools, adding many classrooms in schools, providing school furniture and transportation for students, and sending outstanding students to study abroad, and this represents a key focus for the success of the process. education in the archipelago.
Mr. Ali Ahmed Haji, Ali Bin Abi Talib School Director, expressed his happiness on this day, in which we witness the opening of 12 new classrooms in the school, fully equipped with all its requirements of school furniture.
Haji expressed his thanks to the Khalifa Foundation for this great support to the school, which witnesses a large turnout of students from the coastline areas annually.
Sheikh Hamoud Omar Ali, Vice-President of the Tribal Federation of the Western Coastal Strip, also spoke about the prominent role of the United Arab Emirates towards education in Socotra Governorate, which came with the opening of 12 new classrooms at Ali Bin Abi Talib School within the context of what it provides to the education sector, as well as the distribution of textbooks and preparation for school afforestation. It helped to improve the level of education in the school that serves most areas of the western coastal strip, thanking the UAE for the service and vital projects it provides to Socotra that serve the Socotra citizen and improve their standard of living.
Sheikh Aref Saeed Abdullah expressed his happiness with the opening of 12 classrooms, as well as the provision of textbooks for students who lack the school. Sheikh Aref appealed to the Khalifa Foundation to make the Ali Bin Abi Talib School within the Foundation’s focus to raise the level of education in it and provide it with modern educational means similar to the Ataya School The model, which gave a good impression of the level of education in it.
Sheikh Aref praised the role of the United Arab Emirates and its charitable arms in supporting education on the island to raise it to a better position that would contribute to providing the governorate with a qualified cadre capable of leading it in various fields.
Where Sheikh Ali Saleh bin Ahmed said that everyone today was happy with the opening of this expansion project for the Ali bin Abi Talib School, which was considered the pivotal school in the western coastal strip… Sheikh bin Ahmed demanded, on behalf of the people of the western coastline, that the Ali bin Abi Talib School be approved in the same way as the Ataya Model School for Hajj Its students have come to this school, which had a positive impact on the Socotra arena and has given successful and distinguished fruits because of its distinguished management.
The teacher, Abdul Rahman Salem, said that the opening of 12 new classes for the school
It will work on solving the problem of student overcrowding in classrooms and contribute to students’ assimilation of the lessons provided by teachers. He appreciated the efforts of the Khalifa Foundation and its interest in education and meeting its basic requirements.
The teacher, Mubarak Ali Saleh, praised the great role played by the United Arab Emirates, represented by the Khalifa Foundation, in order to alleviate students’ suffering from overcrowding, which had a negative impact on students’ understanding of teachers’ explanations.
