An Egyptian young man launched an initiative to reunite Egyptian teachers with their Yemeni students, many years after the teachers returned to Egypt.

The initiator of the initiative, Amir Salah, said that he was born and lived for nearly 17 years in Taiz Governorate in Yemen, and the circumstances of the war in Yemen pushed him to return to Egypt, but he did not forget the “good Yemeni people,” so the idea of ​​this initiative came to him, and he began with the story of his father, who spent the age of 24 He works as a teacher and memorizer of the Holy Qur’an in Yemen.

After that, his meetings continued with Egyptian teachers who worked in Yemen, and his initiative had a great and wide resonance. Regarding this topic, Salah said: “I was surprised by the great success of the initiative, which I never expected, and this encouraged me to continue with it and research more and more. The Yemeni followers of the initiative also began to contact me to help them search for their Egyptian teachers.”

Salah added: “I roamed Egypt from east to west and from north to south in search of Egyptian teachers who worked in Yemen, until I reached the farthest border of Egypt with Libya in the west, and Egypt’s border with Sudan in the south, and I only had 3 governorates left to finish.” From searching in all Egyptian governorates.

Amir Salah’s initiative pushed him to communicate with thousands of Egyptian teachers from all Egyptian governorates, and he reached more than 2,000 Egyptian teachers who worked in Yemen in different periods, starting from the sixties and seventies until the beginning of the recent war in Yemen.

Salah confirmed, "Many of the Yemeni students who studied under Egyptian professors have now become leaders. Some of them have become judges, some have become ministers, pilots, or generals in the Yemeni army, and some have become representatives in the Yemeni House of Representatives."

He continued: “After the success of the initiative, a number of Yemeni ministers contacted me and asked me to search for their Egyptian teachers who had no news of them, and they would like to return the favor and gratitude to their teachers.”

He added: “A number of Yemeni representatives contacted me and provided me with the addresses of their Egyptian teachers, as the exchange of mail letters in the past included the address, and they asked me to search for these teachers for whom they had every feeling of gratitude and gratitude.”

Among the touching scenes that the initiator was exposed to was a number of Yemeni figures visiting Egypt, coming from several Gulf and European countries specifically to visit the graves of their Egyptian teachers who had passed away, and another scene of a Yemeni figure who came to Egypt for only one day, coming from the United States. United States of America to visit his Egyptian teacher and kiss his hand.

Regarding his relationship with Yemen, Salah says: “Yemen is an integral part of my personal life and my academic and professional life. I love the Yemeni people with all my heart and I took this initiative for the sake of God Almighty.”

Despite all this success and these touching stories and scenes, Amir Salah considers that this is just the beginning of his initiative, and that all the students and teachers who have reunited are just a drop of water in the middle of a running river, as there are still thousands and thousands of Egyptians who... They worked on a teaching mission in Yemen.