KUWAIT: A delegation of outstanding Kuwaiti students has flown to Tajikistan and Rwanda, in line with 12th edition of the initiative launched by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED). Speaking to KUNA on Sunday, Saleh Al-Taqi, head of KFAED marketing and exhibitions' department and supervisor of the journey, said the male and female students would visit some development projects carried out by the fund in Rwanda like Hospital Munini and the integrated regional institute for applied arts.
They would be briefed on these projects and how to benefit from them economically and humanitarianly, in addition to paying a visit to Rwanda's national museum, he added. He noted that the fund continues to raise awareness of Kuwaiti students on Kuwait's efforts made to achieve development in the developing countries.
Meanwhile, Fatma Al-Turkait, a senior official at the fund and responsible for female students during the trip, said they would visit some development projects and some historical areas in Tajikistan. She indicated that the fund organizes annually entertaining and cultural journeys to those outstanding students to the countries with which the fund deals. The fund launched the first trip in 2010, and the number of students benefited from the journeys has risen so far to 264.The students visited 15 countries, including Egypt, Jordan, China, Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco and others. - KUNA