Hadhramout Foundation launches its new visual identity
Hadhramout Foundation celebrates its graduates inside and outside Yemen, and holds consultative forums for them.
Bugshan tour leads to signing cooperation agreements in the field of education and scholarships with several countries
On August 29 of this year, the Hadhramout Foundation for Human Development celebrated its 12th anniversary. The ceremony included the unveiling of its new visual identity and the honoring of graduates from seven countries around the world.
The Hadhramout Foundation for Human Development also launched several activities and events within the framework of its interest in the academic development aspect in August. At the beginning of the month, it opened its doors to those who wanted to enroll their children in the model high schools that are supported by those in charge of the foundation. It also opened a model high school for girls.
The second workshop was concluded to prepare and qualify the departments of the College of Engineering and Petroleum at Hadhramout University to obtain international academic accreditation from ABET.
These efforts come amid the ongoing Yemeni crisis of 2015. The foundation was initially impacted by the suspension of student scholarships abroad, the same year that al-Qaeda invaded and seized control of Mukalla. However, the situation gradually began to improve with the continuation of scholarships and the signing of agreements between the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hadhramout Foundation for Human Development, Eng. Abdullah Ahmed Bugshan, and education authorities in Egypt, Turkey, France, India, and Germany to provide study places for the foundation's students.
The Hadhramout Foundation for Human Development has played a major role in promoting education in Hadhramout and the rest of the southern governorates since its establishment on 22/8/2006. Its Board of Trustees consists of Saudi businessmen of Hadhrami origin, headed by businessman Engineer Abdullah Ahmed Saeed Bugshan.
The Foundation's activities are divided into four sections: general education through its secondary schools, which were established between 2007 and 2008; the internal and external scholarship program; the vocational and technical education program with its two branches: the Life-Work Program and the Technical and Vocational Institutes Development Program; and the Hadhramout English Language Institute.
Over the past three months, the Foundation has launched numerous development projects and programs, such as student consultative forums in Saudi Arabia, which bring together its scholarship students to share their ideas and creativity and discuss their futures after graduation.
The Foundation's activities also witnessed the graduation of 12 Hadrami diplomats from the Arab Administrative Development Organization (affiliated with the Arab League) in the hope of integrating them into the Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs' diplomatic corps in various countries around the world.
It also witnessed the graduation ceremony of 283 graduates from Western universities in Saudi Arabia.
To further shed light on what the Hadhramout Foundation for Human Development has provided, it conducted: Akabars An interview with one of the 12 graduating diplomats, media personality Mohammed Zaki Aideed, and the Yemeni student representative (appointed by the Cultural Attaché of the Yemeni Embassy in Riyadh), Engineer Hamad Ayza Al-Dulaie. Both are students from the Foundation enrolled at Taibah University. They spoke to us about the Foundation’s contributions to them as students. Aideed said: “The Hadhramout Foundation provided us with all kinds of material, psychological and moral support, by pairing us with programs that qualified us to work in the fields we desired, such as media and political science. Not to mention that it acted as an intermediary between us and universities around the world, opening up a sea of opportunities for us – through the agreements it concluded with universities – to empower our cognitive abilities.
Al-Dulaie added, "Hadhramout Foundation has contributed to honing my personal skills, as it provided me with the opportunity to study electrical engineering for a bachelor's degree at Taibah University in Medina. This pioneering institution also contributed to providing me with the opportunity to be sent on a scholarship to Pennsylvania State University in the United States of America as part of the 3+1 program at the College of Engineering at Taibah University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
As for their future ambitions, diplomat Aideed said, "I look forward to honing my cognitive and practical skills in the field I love, which is political science. I have always been pained by the deteriorating situation of our country in all areas, and I would like to contribute to creating a new reality in the Yemeni arena that will significantly contribute to advancing our nation to the best possible conditions."
The engineer adds, "I look forward to studying for a master's degree at one of the most prestigious American universities, in specializations that the nation in general and Hadhramaut in particular needs, so that we can return with a high academic achievement that will help us build our beloved country."
