March 02, 2017•Update: March 05, 2017
ALEPPO, Syria
A Turkish educational agency is helping students, teachers and administrators in northern Syria’s recently liberated Jarabulus district.
The Martyr Sadik Hindavi Primary School, one of the oldest educational institutions in Jarabulus (a district of Aleppo), reopened some five months ago after Daesh terrorists were driven from the area following the launch last summer of Operation Euphrates Shield.
The Turkey-led operation’s main objective is to improve security, support coalition forces, and eliminate the terrorist threat along Syria’s northern border with Turkey with the use of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) backed by Turkish air and artillery support.
According to school principal Ramazan Mustafa, Turkey's state-run Maarif (Education) Foundation has continued to support the primary school, along with other schools outside the district center.
“Turkey’s Maarif Foundation is sending books, desks, notebooks and pens,” Mustafa told Anadolu Agency. “It’s also paying the teachers’ salaries.”
He went on to note that the school was providing education to some 1,000 students through 28 teachers and three school principals.
“The school’s activities are continuing at full speed, thanks to everyone who has contributed,” Mustafa said.
One teacher at the school, Beshir Halaf Zahar, teaches first-level students.
“Students are enthusiastic about learning,” Zahar said, noting that they had lost two years of education due to the district’s temporary occupation by Daesh.
“I provide education to students at their homes as well as at school,” he added.
Zahar also thanked the Maarif Foundation for its support and contributions to the children’s education.
“The foundation sends us whatever we want,” he said. “Especially the stationery supplies the children need.”
Primary school student Meyyar Hantuvani said: “I have learned how to read and write. God bless Turkey.”
*Reporting by Halit Suleyman and Kemal Karagoz; Writing by Handan Kazanci
