A number of Saudi students studying on their own accounts abroad, particularly in the United States of America, complained about the great dilemma in which they found themselves after the Corona pandemic, and the official authorities have so far ignored their suffering.
These students demanded the authorities of their countries to intervene to save them from this distress by including them in the government scholarship program and providing them with the necessary needs, after many of them were stranded.
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And they posted a tag on Twitter entitled # Corona_and_All_Researchers on their account explaining their reality, and some of them presented video testimonies to explain their circumstances, demanding health insurance and their integration in the government scholarship program.
Please consider my suffering and the suffering of my fellow students on their own account @ S_S_Students @ selen_1422 @ makkahnp @ Lina_toaimy @ HamadMAlSheikh @ MinisterVice @ khalid76 # Corona_and the students_ Ali_ their account pic.twitter.com/SBrkSQRGNy - Faisal (@ Jaguar73446591) May 5, 2020 |
Some of them demanded the Saudi government to abandon the requirement of admission to universities that are ranked among the first 100 in the world, as an impossible condition in this period, and that many of them were stranded and exhausted his family’s savings in studying at his own expense.
# Corona_and_Accountants_I am a PhD student at a university ranked 175 globally and in my specialty is artificial intelligence. However, my application is rejected due to the requirement of universities despite the distinguishedity of my university as per the recommendation of the cultural attaché to my appendix. @ Minister_moe_sa @makkahnp @ KSA24 - MohammedE (@ Mohammad_ksa_30) May 6, 2020 |
The Saudi newspaper, Makkah, said that Saudi students studying at their own expense in the United States face "difficult challenges in light of the spread of the new Corona virus, and the loss of temporary jobs that they were working in to help them pay part of their expenses, and the families of some of them stopped or reduced the financial aid that was sent to them." And some of them do not have health insurance to cover the costs of treatment if he is exposed to a health model. "
# Corona crisis exhausts learners on their own account in # America https://t.co/Oyt4x3tabt# Mecca newspaper pic.twitter.com/xJ6en6XPnp - The daily newspaper (@makkahnp) April 30, 2020 |
The newspaper reported the testimonies and testimonies of some of them, and quoted some of them as saying that their physical and psychological suffering increased after Corona's outbreak, "for fear of not completing what they aspired to, because of the lack of money to pay their tuition and personal fees and the lack of appropriate medical insurance or the lack of coverage of medical insurance for all cases and costs."
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Unfortunately, the subject slaughters us from intravenous to intravenous and is depleted during the period of God, the world is in our condition ... O world of the Attaché who we have what they know so that I am in the monastery to study on my own account ... - yassbin (@yjambi) May 5, 2020 |