SINGAPORE: Scholarships in Singapore are among the many ground-led initiatives to assist the Palestinian folks, House Affairs Minister Ok Shanmugam stated on Thursday (Oct 9).
Mr Shanmugam was chatting with the media after assembly with three Palestinians who had been provided scholarships to review at Singapore universities under the Palestinian Scholarship Initiative (PSI).
The initiative was launched in October final yr by a gaggle of Singaporeans in response to challenges confronted by college students as a result of battle.
Two are in postgraduate programmes on the Nationwide College of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore College of Social Sciences, whereas one other is a 19-year-old undergraduate on the Singapore Institute of Administration.
A fourth scholar was unable to evacuate from Gaza in time for the beginning of the educational yr in NUS, and the college will maintain the spot for the following educational yr, PSI stated in a press launch on Wednesday.
“Many of those are ground-led initiatives. For those who have a look at the variety of issues which have been occurring, folks on the bottom in Gaza, Singaporeans serving to folks there,” stated Mr Shanmugam, who can be coordinating minister for nationwide safety.
“There may be this (PSI) initiative to deliver college students, there’s the initiative to boost cash in addition to objects, materials that may be helpful for folks in Gaza, typically delivered by our Singapore Air Power.
“Folks on the bottom working arduous, constructively, authorities coming in – we’re all working collectively as a society. It is a superb initiative by the individuals who got here collectively to deliver the scholars.”
