October 11, 2021, Socotra Online
Reporting and Photography: Muhammad bin Muhaimid – Aref Abdo
The students from the sons of Socotra on scholarships to study in Egyptian universities at the expense of the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation for Humanitarian Works today left the island to continue their studies at their different levels and specializations.
The 70 students headed to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after the summer vacation, and to prepare for the start of the new academic year.
This comes in light of the interest that the Foundation provides in the educational field for the people of Socotra to supply the local market with youth cadres capable of advancing the island’s reality in various service and vital sectors.
Socotra Online was present at the students bid farewell at Socotra International Airport and met with a number of students and their parents to know their impressions of the Emirati efforts to support the island’s children for education. The scholarship students who will leave Socotra Airport today for Egypt, some of them to study the third level and others for the second year, and everyone sensed all that the Emirates of Charity offers to ensure that they receive a distinguished education to serve his family on the island.
While the student Abdel Hamid Omar Bin Bashir indicated that the students on scholarships today are happy to return to study at their universities in the Republic of Egypt after spending the summer vacation. Bashir noted the Khalifa Foundation’s keenness and interest in the Socotra student to reach a prosperous future.
The leading UAE role in the island included various sectors, including the higher education and rehabilitation sector, which gave the island’s students an opportunity to reach their future.
He added that the scholarships offered by the Khalifa Foundation for the people of Socotra would work to supply the local market with human resources that contribute to the advancement and development of the province.
Ali Muhammad, the guardian of one of the female students, spoke of his great happiness in bidding farewell to their children to receive education in the universities of the sisterly Arab Republic of Egypt at the expense of the Sheikh Khalifa Foundation, which is making great efforts in supporting the education sector, especially in the aspect of scholarships to qualify specialized qualified cadres that will benefit the island in the near future.
