Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva has participated at the 70th anniversary festivities of School 23 in the Nesimi district of Baku.
Collective of the School warmly and with flowers greeted Mehriban Aliyeva.
Director of the School Naila Rzaguliyeva spoke of the historical path of the School, its tutorial collective and alumni. Since 1995, the School is named after the National Hero of Azerbaijan Tahir Hasanov, she said. At the same year, the nationwide leader of the Azerbaijani people has been at the School and inaugurated the memorial plaque with bas-relief of the hero. In the latest three years, 7 teachers of the School have become "Teacher of Year".
In 2003-2004 academic year, the School was awarded in the nomination of "The best educational institution of year". The alumni of the School have become politicians, scholars, architects, men of art and literature. Mrs Mehriban Aliyeva has also graduated from this School, and with gold medal, in 1981.
At the arrangement, also spoke minister of education Misir Mardanov, head of the Executive power of Nesimi District Tahir Guliyev and others, who wished success to the collective of the School 23.
Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva made speech at the anniversary ceremony. On behalf of the tutorial collective, she was presented a memorial gift.
Then, Mehriban Aliyeva was familiarized with the exhibits at the School`s museum, talked to teachers and was photographed.