andorra
when you hear this what's the first
thing that comes to your mind
have you heard of this before
could it be a fruit
or maybe a brand or maybe the name of a
person
well believe it or not
andorra is a country in europe
and what amazes me the most is that we
have a yemeni one of us studying there
so are we really complaining that we're
lacking study opportunities
i mean
there are many other countries just like
andorra giving so many opportunities to
students whether yemenis or other
international students to have a chance
to develop themselves and go abroad
so i'm sure each and every one of you
would like a chance like that
here's a short video of collected of
some of these yemenis who have gone
abroad and seized opportunities
from sana yemen
i'm studying in japan yokohama national
university which is the best
hello everyone my name is
and i graduated from electrical
engineering from the university of
calgary located in alberta canada
during my undergrad i discovered that
i'm passionate about technology and all
the ways you can use such technology to
enhance people's lives when it comes to
technology the sky is your limit and
that's what i love doing
here
um
now these are just a few i collected we
have many other studying incredible
fields things like aeronautic
engineering we have someone who can go
to space someday things like medical
microbiology quantum physics and many
more
so it really makes me feel sad when i
see so many students with so much
talents and abilities looking for
opportunities
to go abroad and develop themselves but
are unable to do so either because they
do not know of these opportunities or do
not know how to apply for these
opportunities
whether it's for short programs or
degree programs or even for internship
and training opportunities
all that is required of you is that
you're well prepared
aware
and you're determined as well as of
course keep an eye out keep searching
and i promise you whatever scholarship
or opportunity you're looking for you
will find
let me share one of my stories with you
apart from all the talking
um
many many years ago
just kidding
back when i started
university i couldn't apply for an
opportunity to study abroad so i had to
choose an english university in yemen
now one of the difficulties i faced was
that
they had very few unlimited opportunity
uh programs that you could choose from
which was very depressing i know
but
this is life you don't really get all
you want life is about compromises
so i ended up taking i.t
i think half the population of yemen
study studyit
but
the thing is
this did not stop me
what i did was i found what i was
passionate about and i took it as
something to do on the side
i volunteered with many ngos as well as
in a lot of community service and with
my university as well implementing
different kind of projects to help in
the development of our society
now
what amazed me was i wasn't really
searching for opportunity
but two years later i was surfing online
on a facebook page and i came across a
post it was for a five weeks program on
women's leadership
and it was the perfect opportunity to
help me develop and what i was
passionate about
so i applied
and i was immediately selected as a
candidate do you know why
because when they look at my records
they saw that i've been working for at
this i've been getting prepared for this
and that i was the right person for this
because i was passionate about it
so what i'm trying to say is as long as
you're passionate about it and you keep
going forward
keep searching for opportunities you'll
find many that will help you develop
and
actually one year later exactly
i i was telling all my friends because
this was an opportunity that really
changed my life i came back and i kept
telling all my friends my family that
you have to go on exchange programs you
will see the world like never before and
just one year later
my sister and many of my friends got the
opportunity and went abroad in similar
programs
so this was an inspiration to me
and
four months ago a group of us started a
facebook page i don't know if you know
it yeah many students from around the
world
the idea was to gather as many yemenis
studying abroad and studying in yemen
get them introduced to one another and
let them benefit from each other
and we were amazed by the diversity and
the abilities that we discovered
and many of these students that we
gathered they are all on scholarship
opportunities and they were all willing
to help all those who were interested
so we thought how do we make this
from something simple and fun
to something great and useful to our
society
and that was when we thought of this
what if we could create a network
and community of yemenis from all around
the world
sharing their ideas their thoughts in
one place
this would be in form of a website
and the website would contain the
information of all these students which
are studying abroad
as well as all the scholarships the aids
and the funds that are available to
yemenis
now this way
it will encourage yemenis to have an
idea
how to apply when to apply in all of the
above now
what we did was
we decided and we created a proposal to
find make sure that this website has all
these scholarships and all these aids as
well as a step-by-step explanation of
how to apply to these pers to these
scholarships and opportunities
and what would make our website unique
is that
when any yemeni or any member is
searching for opportunity he can
automatically be connected with other
yemenis who have shared or have earned
these scholarships previously
this way they can have a one-on-one
detailed feedback of how to seize these
opportunities perfectly
now let me not talk more and just give
you an idea of how the website will be
it will be mainly for scholarships
but whether degree or short programs or
training programs whichever you decide
you can find
it will also have a section for forum
where all our members can get introduced
to each other
connecting together and creating a
network
we also have a section mainly for ideas
where all of our members can share their
ideas to get comments on now there'll
also be an opportunity section because
i'm sure many of us want to know about
jobs and internships and all of these
kind of opportunities so whether you
want a job you want an internship or
even to volunteer because we do want to
give back to our society
and last but not the least which is the
most amazing part is it will have the
search for yemeni section where you can
find all these yemenis which are
studying similar and similar
opportunities or
programs in which you want to apply for
this way you can have an idea and
contact them and easily be able to get
the opportunity in a much better way
our aim for the website is to help
create
an understanding increase opportunities
and develop the skills within the m
youth
yes this might take some time and of
course i'm sure we're going to face many
obstacles but what we're trying to do is
do our best be determined to do whatever
it takes to make sure that this happens
in hope that someday our network will
bring together yemenis from all around
the world working together hand in hand
as one towards a better yemen and a
better tomorrow thank you