The Yemeni community in New York, in partnership with the Association, organizes an event honoring graduating students for the year 2024 AD, and announcing the launch of new educational projects.
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On Saturday, June 29, 2024 AD, the Yemeni community in New York, along with a number of Yemeni partner organizations, the Maonah Association for Human Rights and Immigration, and the Yemeni American Cultural Center, organized a celebration of the Yemeni Day to Support Education. The celebration honored hundreds of male and female students and parents who were honored by The leadership of the community and its partners in support of education and encouragement of students, given that education is a human right in accordance with the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Plan. The students also held festive singing ceremonies in which the artist Ammar Muhammad Hayel participated. The celebration was opened with a welcome speech by Professor Ali Abdul Latif Al-Saidi, head of the Yemeni community. In New York, he welcomed the attendees and called on parents to encourage education among the community’s members. A speech was also given at the ceremony by the partner organizations by Mr. Muhammad Allaw, President of the Maonah Association for Human Rights and Immigration, in which he thanked the attendees and stressed that the ceremony honoring the Yemeni students in New York is a gesture. Good Positive, organized by the Maonah Association since 2019, where the Association organized the first event to honor Yemeni graduates from American universities and schools, and the Association is proud to have participated in all subsequent annual events to honor scholars and graduates, out of its belief in supporting the right to education for all Yemeni and Arab immigrants in the United States as a basic right. The human being is in it.
At the ceremony, the community and Maonah Arab Youth Association in America were invited to participate in a free educational program for all Arabic language speakers in the United States of America, especially young people, graduate students, and new immigrants. It is a program to enhance digital skills to empower Arab immigrants and refugees in America and Canada, sponsored by the Yemeni community in New York and implemented. Maonah Association for Human Rights and Immigration, in partnership with the Bixology Foundation for Peace and Development, and the Public Services Center for the Integration of Immigrants in Canada.
A number of speeches were delivered at the ceremony by the event’s guests, American officials, led by Mr. Muhammad Bahi, representative of the New York Mayor’s Office for Islamic Communities Affairs, who expressed his happiness at attending the ceremony and the city’s support for the Yemeni community and all Islamic and Arab communities.
At the conclusion of the celebration, the graduating students were honored with certificates of appreciation from the community’s leadership and its partner organizations, which were delivered to the students and their parents to more than 400 male and female students from various educational levels. A number of American officials and members of Congress in the state who participated in the ceremony were also honored.
