On Saturday 15 June 2024, the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, visited the Urhai School for teaching the Chaldean language in the Australian city of Sydney, which includes approximately 200 students from among our people. He was accompanied by a delegation from the Yonan Hozaya Center for Research and Future Studies, which included Adib Goga, Adil Danno and Medhat al-Bazi.
The delegation was received by the school principal, Maysoon Yalda, and the teaching staff. The delegation toured the school’s departments and learned about the experience of teaching the mother tongue there. Oghanna expressed his admiration for teaching in the mother tongue at the school and praised their work, stressing the importance of teaching future generations in the mother language to preserve it and our heritage. Our people are on the verge of extinction, especially in diaspora countries far from the homeland.
Oghanna pointed out in his speech that the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts’ doors are open to cooperation with all individuals and institutions related to our people in Iraq and the diaspora, to enhance the cultural reality and support the process of education in the mother tongue, as well as its development in the homeland and the diaspora.
It is worth noting that the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, is visiting Australia at the official invitation of the Yonan Hozaya Center for Research and Future Studies and the Suraya Cultural Forum, to talk about 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.
