The activities of the back-to-school campaign kicked off under the slogan ‘My School, My Second Home’, organised by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education for the new academic year 2023-2024, in co-operation with Mowasalat Company (Karwa).
The campaign is expected to attract students and their parents with the aim of benefiting from its targeted programmes and various recreational activities in preparing students morally and psychologically for the learning atmosphere in schools.
Maryam Abdullah Al-Mohannadi, Director of the Public Relations and Communication Department,at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, said that one of the campaign’s goals is to prepare student children, especially those in the primary and early childhood stages for the new academic year, through a variety of educational and purposeful activities.
In a statement to Qatar News Agency (QNA) after launching the campaign, Al-Mohannadi explained that the Public Relations and Communication Department has a distinguished participation in it through two important paragraphs, one of which is titled ‘Little Journalist’, where one of the children will ask various questions in various subjects to his fellow children and students, with the aim of stimulating their thought processes in preparation for the start of the new academic year, while the Qatari writer Lina Al-Aali, through the second paragraph entitled ‘Read My Story’, tells useful and entertaining stories for children to encourage them to read, which confirms that this event combines school preparation and entertainment.
She called on parents to participate in the campaign and, for their part, prepare their children for a successful academic year, expressing her thanks to Karwa Company for its keenness to contribute to organising this campaign and preparing students for the new academic year.
For his part, Faisal Al Nuaimi, Director of Karwa Academy, said in a similar statement to QNA that the company, in co-operation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, has been organising this campaign before the start of each new academic year, to be a successful and safe year in all respects.
In a related context, he mentioned that the company was keen to train drivers on how to deal with children, how to load and unload them from buses and buses, and how to deal with the school, the ministry, and bus supervisors as well, in addition to providing warning tools for the driver to avoid everything that endangers the lives of children, even when they sleep. Inside buses and coaches, for example.
Al-Nuaimi noted that Karwa will, within these preparations and necessary precautions, track school buses through technology, including cameras and tracking tools, since their departure from their main stations, in order to identify their route, especially in the event that any of them are lost or broken down, in order to take the procedure followed in such cases.
He appreciated the co-operation between the company and the Ministry in organising these campaigns to prepare students as they return to school, and inform the public at the same time about the efforts made for their security and safety, pointing out that thousands of school buses transport 60,000 students daily.
