Aleppo-Sana
The case of teacher Abeer Makansi, who lost a lower limb due to a treacherous missile shell that targeted her school in the Al-Furqan neighborhood in Aleppo, is a unique humanitarian case for defiance and steadfastness in the face of terrorism and the insistence to continue completing her educational mission.
From her educational platform in the modernized Al-Furqan school, the teacher, Makansi, recovers moments during 2016 when her school was exposed to a rocket-propelled grenade launched by the armed terrorist organizations, and she evokes the cries of children and the scenes of destruction that she left with the death of 9 children, including 3 in her class and 6 in the courtyard, while she lost her left foot and suffered various injuries and bruises .
When she was treated at the university hospital and told her about the possibility of installing a prosthetic limb that would help her walk, my place told the SANA reporter, “The first thing I thought about was completing my educational career and returning to the teaching profession and educating children.” She continues, “The love for education runs in my blood and it is a profession that I cannot abandon and terrorism cannot. Get me away from her ”.
Makassi revealed that, in 2017, after the prosthetic limb was installed, she returned to her profession, which she loved stronger than she was to keep up with her second-grade students, noting that she had set in mind a lofty goal, which is to teach children and not to give up.
She concluded by saying, "I gave my students and female teachers the positive energy to challenge and continue working," offering congratulations to all teachers on the occasion of Teacher's Day and thanking the Education Directorate, which returned her to her beloved profession.
Another case that proved her love and adherence to the teaching profession is confirmed by Hassan Zallaf, director of the Third Industrial Institute of the Aleppo Education Directorate, who spent more than 3 decades teaching generations of engineering drawing, handicraft carpentry and weaving, and participated in authoring secondary school curricula for carpentry and decoration.
Zulf explained to the SANA reporter that after the institute was sabotaged and destroyed by terrorists, work was done to rehabilitate the damaged parts of the institute by assembling them and transfer some of them to the apprenticeship school for dual education and then return to the institute's place to complete its educational career, produce school chairs and desks, activate the textile department and graduate students who are masters of a letter. Weaving and carpentry.
Qusay Razzouk