They tried to make Qatar an island. We built bridges through education
- 5 years ago
They tried to make Qatar an island. We built bridges through education By Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani, Vice Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation.
Wednesday marked a long time since the day that Qatar was all of a sudden cut off from a portion of its neighbors in the Gulf and Middle East through the imposition of an unforeseen and unjust blockade. The quick and justifiable responses were shock and concern.
Moms stressed over getting milk for their kids; specialists dreaded they would lose their patients since medications that came through land were blocked overnight. Families all of a sudden wound up partitioned by a geographical line that, the day before, only mattered on a map. Qatar-based students from specific countries dreaded being unable to finish their degrees and every single Qatari students in blockading nations were advised to leave right away.
Yet, response and reaction are two distinct things. Two years on from the beginning of this blockade, Qatar has endure, yet exhibited how the key decisions our nation made decades prior have given us the strength and assurance to continue pushing ahead and flourish for the benefit of our nation – in the name of knowledge.
Inside Qatar Foundation, the association I have the benefit to lead, there are students from in excess of 60 nations at Qatar Foundation's accomplice colleges – Northwestern, Georgetown, Virginia Commonwealth, Texas A&M, Weill Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, University College London, HEC Paris and our own homegrown Hamad Bin Khalifa University. When the blockade came into force, we saw direct how some of them were affected.
We had students studying abroad in Qatar who weren't permitted by their nations of origin to come back to Doha to finish their programs. One of our journalism students who should begin their senior year was ceased from coming back to Qatar by a blockading country. His 19 years in Qatar Foundation schools would have been totally supportive of no degree. Indeed, by far most of our students saw no interference to their education. Be that as it may, even one understudy whose education is affected by variables outside their ability to control is one too much.
At the point when the bar started, we understood the direness of supporting youngsters who were uncertain about what the geopolitics abruptly implied for their training. Where fundamental, we helped understudies discover puts on the home grounds of our colleges to proceed with their investigations. Furthermore, we tried harder to make Qatar a goal for youthful learning searchers from around the district and the world.
My mom, Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, established the Qatar Foundation almost 25 years prior. She set her focus on teaching young fellows and ladies from earliest stages to adulthood since she trusted in the intensity of instruction to change society.
You may ask: Why is this significant? Why, in the midst of this bar, is a Gulf state so centered around training? For what reason does it make a difference such a great amount to us that understudies ought to be allowed to open their potential without limitations?
My mom, Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, established the Qatar Foundation almost 25 years back. She set her focus on teaching young fellows and ladies from early stages to adulthood since she trusted in the intensity of instruction to change society. A standout amongst the most valuable human rights is the privilege to information, which is the premise of development, both scholastically and by and by. Through training, we can endeavor to have a beneficial outcome on nearby and worldwide society; through educated discussion, development and imagination we can handle the numerous difficulties the world presents us with.
Qatar Foundation has joined forces with a portion of the world's best colleges to set up campuses in Qatar that offer fantastic education in fields including medicine, engineering, the arts, computer science, international relations, and business, while additionally setting up a journalism school, which is special to our region. These programs are only one part of a speculation that has not been stopped at all by the events of two years prior.
Since the beginning of the blockade, we have opened two new schools, the Qatar National Library, and Sidra Medicine – a spearheading emergency clinic for ladies and kids that is likewise home to imperative restorative research, for example, a year ago's improvement of a spearheading diabetes the board convention offering quicker and more secure access to diabetes treatment.
We have fortified our job as a local center point of advancement through the Arab Innovation Academy, facilitated by QF part Qatar Science and Technology Park and propelled after the blockade started. Its second version, in January this year, united 160 youthful pioneers, just as specialists and financial specialists, from in excess of 30 nations.
Furthermore, only half a month prior, I gladly remained on a phase with just about 800 students graduating from Qatar Foundation's accomplice colleges, denoting the finish of one period of their life and the beginning of a new one. As opposed to seeing our worldwide student numbers fall in the wake of the blockade, we had a higher extent of students from outside Qatar this year than a year ago.
The previous two years have made us contemplate why we organized education so intensely, and what this center has accomplished for Qatar. Notwithstanding making open doors for some inquisitive youngsters, our interest in education has made an impression on our locale and the world about how information and development have no limits or limitations. We have been tried, and we trust we are winning – on the grounds that, without acknowledging it, we had been getting ready for this test for a long time.
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