Ambassador Erdem Mutaf, Turkish ambassador to South Sudan - Courtesy

The Turkish Ambassador to South Sudan has urged secondary school students to study hard if they want to be eligible for scholarships from the Turkish government.

Ambassador Erdem Mutaf made the remarks on Friday, March 8, 2024, at Darling Wisdom Secondary School to celebrate International Women’s Day under the Theme: Invest in women, Accelerate Progress.

The Turkish diplomat says the embassy opens its scholarship every year in January and February.

He says that many South Sudanese students attended Turkish Universities and some of them graduated from there.

Ambassador Mutaf told students that among them are leaders, engineers, architects, medical doctors, nurses, and international experts.

“We are granting scholarships, if you study hard then you might be eligible for the Turkish Universities, you have to apply for the Turkey Scholarships,” Ambassador Mutaf said.

“We open scholarships in January and February every year and many of your friends, are now attending these Turkish Universities and some of them graduated,” he said.

“Among you many are engineers, architects, medical doctors, nurses, and international experts.”

For his part, the Director of Darling Wisdom Academy School is calling on any embassy or donors to invest in the school.

He says opening vocational training centres for its students especially girls, so that by the time they finish high school they will have something to do and be independent.

“In this school, we need a vocational training centre for our girls and students, especially when they finish,” Noble said.

“I called on any embassy that will work with us to realize this because it means empowering after they finish their secondary,” he said.

“If we give them vocational training, they will be independent. They will not be dependent. They will sustain their lives.

“We also need to have agricultural gardens so that we encourage our learners to farm so that they solve food security.”

“In our country, we have computer labs in our school. In all our computers, we have rooms for computer labs, but we don’t have computers.”