Damascus-SANA
The number of students participating in the Arab Reading Challenge in its seventh edition at the level of Syria has reached 290,000 students, representing 2,400 schools from 16 educational regions in various governorates, according to the National Coordinator of the Challenge, Ali Al-Abbas.
Al-Abbas indicated, in a statement to SANA reporter, after a meeting that included virtual challenge coordinators and assistant directors of education from various governorates, that the number of participants has multiplied several times over what it was last year, which indicates that the spread is wider, as schools work to encourage students and achieve the largest possible participation.
And Al-Abbas indicated that the UAE allocated a special award this year for students with disabilities who wish to participate in the competition with only 25 books, so a new category was added and a special coordinator was identified for it within the competition this year.
He added: The number of participants in the category of persons with disabilities reached 300, who have a special coordinator from among the wounded of the homeland, indicating that the governorates that were hit by the earthquake and in which the challenge was partially stopped are returning today as part of the competition, where work is being done to follow up the participating students from their places of residence in the centers. quartering.
The Minister of Education, Dr. Darem Tabaa, pointed out that today's meeting aims to give greater impetus to the challenge of reading, as it is part of the psychological support for children to give them the opportunity to think in areas outside the framework of the disaster and to return students to reading to overcome this ordeal, specifically in the affected areas.
Tabbaa explained that the coordinators of the Arab Reading Challenge in Syria are working to discover creative talents and personalities, believing that education, reading and science are the first things a person should think about to build his country, stressing that after the earthquake disaster, we have a greater need to form libraries full of knowledge to secure reading for children as an important part of Psychological support programmes.
Rehab Ali
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