UAE offers full scholarship to frontliners’ kids

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Approximately 1,850 children of frontline medical workers in the UAE have so far been allowed full scholarship, empowering them to read with the expectation of complimentary beginning this academic year until their high school graduation. Applications for this exceptional activity of the administration are set to close on September 30.

With the programme called Hayyakum, the frontliners’ children will be given spaces at state funded schools in the nation and they won’t need to pay educational expenses until they graduate secondary school. Laptops and transportation are likewise secured, making sure about the instruction of in excess of a thousand kids of various nationalities.

Hayyakum was turned out through an order from His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces. Directed by Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Chairman of the Education and Human Resources Council, the programme was launched by the Ministry of Education in association with the Frontline Heroes Office.

The activity points not exclusively to give the school kids admittance to quality training, yet additionally to mitigate the budgetary pressure looked by a few medical care experts at whatever point the scholarly year begins. The grant at last plans to urge these forefront legends to remain longer in the UAE.

Sheik Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, administrator of the Board of the Frontline Heroes Office, offered his thanks to the staff who have set the wellbeing and security of individuals over the UAE in front of their own.

Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Minister of Education, said Hayyakum is a demonstration of the network solidarity in the nation.

The Ministry on Education tries to legitimately offer instructive help for the children of forefront medical services experts so they can proceed with their priceless and honorable work, Al Hammadi said.

Forefront Heroes Office was built up in July this year to help the staff and experts who work eagerly on the cutting edges of crises and emergencies. It is ordered to care for their requirements in association with government elements.

Hayyakum is the workplace’s first community venture, dispatched in organization with the Ministry of Education.

Recently, it set up an exhaustive public information base of more than 80,000 forefront experts and volunteers who are effectively ensuring the UAE and its occupants in the battle against Covid-19.