Foundations laid for new Karpaz school
AS PART of the “You Build a School Too” campaign, a groundbreaking ceremony was held last Friday in the Karpaz peninsula village of Ziyamet for the “Halil Falyalı Special Education and Business Training School”, a project spearheaded by the Halil Falyalı Charitable Foundation.
Dignitaries including Prime Minister Ünal Üstel, National Education Minister Nazım Çavuşoğlu and other ministers, Erenköy-Karpaz Mayor Hamit Bakırcı, Mehmetçik-Büyükkonuk Mayor Fatma Çimen Tuğlu, members of the Falyalı family, MPs, government officials and members of the public attended the ceremony.
The event commenced with a moment of silence followed by the singing of the national anthem. Following speeches, the construction was launched with the pressing of symbolic red buttons.
Spanning a 2,634-square-metre area, the school building will encompass a 650m2 indoor space with an additional 770m2 designated for seating, including open terraces.
The administrative facilities will be situated on the first floor, while classrooms, workshops, waiting rooms and a kitchen will occupy the ground floor.
The school will boast 11 classrooms, two workshops, a multipurpose kitchen aimed at nurturing students’ life skills, a versatile hall, a guidance and counselling office, waiting areas and a 410m2 inner courtyard.
Upon completion, the Ziyamet Special Education and Business Training School will relocate to this new facility.
Representing the Halil Falyalı Charitable Foundation, Les Ambassadeurs Group of Companies board member Metin Şahinoğlu expressed gratitude to all those present.
He highlighted the late Halil
Falyalı’s “patriotic spirit, philanthropic endeavours, and deep love” for Karpaz.
Şahinoğlu underscored that Özge Falyalı, “carrying her husband’s torch, continues his legacy of aid and investment in the region”.
The new school will serve as a “beacon of knowledge” for children in the area, he added.
Meanwhile a new canteen building was opened at Erenköy High School, also in the Karpaz peninsula last Friday.
The new facility was built with the philanthropic contributions of the Tangül Ünal Çağıner Children’s Aid Foundation.
PM Üstel and Turkish ambassador Metin Feyzioğlu were among those who attended and spoke at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.