Computer classrooms set up with Taiwan’s help have enabled Ukrainian student refugees living in Turkey to continue their studies and take their country’s national education tests, a Taiwanese official said.
In total, Taiwan has donated 39 computer system units to help set up computer classrooms at two lodging facilities in Turkey that are currently housing 972 refugee children and orphans from Ukraine war, Representative to Turkey Volkan Huang (黃志揚) said.
The program has allowed those students to continue their studies, with 147 having completed their curriculum and passed their country’s national education tests, Huang said during a visit to the Turkish province of Antalya on Thursday, where he visited the students.
Photo courtesy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Mission in Ankara
Huang was accompanied by Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants (ASAM) Deputy General Coordinators Buket Bahar Divrak and Levent Ulusoy, as well as Consul of Ukraine in Antalya Oleksandr Voronin and officials from the Turkish Ministry of Family and Social Services.
Expressing his gratitude to Taiwan, Divrak said the computer classrooms have enabled Ukrainian students in Turkey to take the eastern European country’s National Multi-Subject Test online.
Taiwan reached out to ASAM after learning that the Ukrainian refugees had to extend their stay in Turkey because of the ongoing war, Huang said.
Taiwan’s representative office in Turkey then signed an agreement with ASAM on Jan. 17 to initiate the establishment of computer classrooms for the Ukrainian students to help with advancing their education.
Aside from ASAM’s help, Huang said that the continuation of the students’ Ukrainian curriculum was also possible thanks to the cooperation of the Turkish Ministry of Family and Social Services, the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund, the Ukrainian government and other charity organizations.
During their meeting with Huang, the Ukrainian students also thanked Taiwan for the donation as the new computers allowed them to continue their studies from abroad.
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