On Monday 17 June 2024, the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, visited the St. Hurmizd Assyrian Primary School in Sydney, Australia. He was accompanied by a delegation from the Yonan Hozaya Centre for Research and Future Studies, which included Adib Goga and Medhat al-Bazi.
The delegation was received by school principal Benjamin Khoshabeh and teacher Yvonne Ishmael. Together, they toured the school’s departments and laboratories and learned about the experience of teaching the mother language there. This was admired by Oghanna, who praised the work of its administration and teaching staff and stressed the importance of teaching future generations in the mother tongue to preserve it and our people’s heritage from extinction, especially in diaspora countries far from the homeland.
At the conclusion of his speech, Oghanna pointed to the importance of joint cooperation between our people’s institutions at home and abroad, to enhance the cultural reality and support the process of education in the mother tongue, developing it together.
It is worth noting that the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, is visiting Australia at an official invitation from the Yonan Hozaya Centre for Research and Future Studies and the Suraya Cultural Forum, to discuss our people’s cultural and artistic scene in the homeland, through a number of events and meetings that bring him together with our expatriate people there.
