Computer classrooms set up with the help of Taiwan 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 units of computer systems to help set up computer classrooms at two lodging facilities in Turkey that are currently housing 972 refugee children and orphans from the war in Ukraine, according to Taiwan's representative to Turkey Huang Chih-yang (黃志揚).
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 in Antalya on Thursday, where he visited the students.
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 Turkey's Ministry of Family and Social Services.
Expressing her 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.
According to Huang, Taiwan reached out to ASAM after learning that the Ukrainian refugees had to extend their stay in Turkey because of the ongoing war.
Taiwan's representative office in Turkey then signed an agreement with ASAM on Jan. 17 this year 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 Turkey's Ministry of Family and Social Services, the United Nations 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.
