14/12/2016
Talked about his most
important stations in Asharqia Chamber in Tajribati program
businessman Abdul Razak Al Turki said that
blindness was not an obstacle to his career in the scientific, or professional life,
but felt sad when he reached the age of 6 and could not study because private
schools were not available for the blind.
Al
Turki said In Tajribati program organized by Asharqia Chamber represented by the Youth Business Council on Monday
evening, December 12, 2016, that he lost sight at the age of one and a half, many
people thought that I lost life as a whole but learned the love and charity
work of parents and brothers and sisters who encouraged me and
raised ambition in myself and I became ambitious and they gave me self confidence.
Al
Turki noted that ambition and confidence
defeat hardships and that he lived a very unusual and beautiful childhood and
did not feel it as a disability, and that his father was the hero of his life
where he brought teachers to teach him the
studies and religious subjects, saying, I reached the level of high school without a
certificate and I did not know that
there are homes students, we applied to high school examination and we received
the response of the Ministry of Education that there is an institute for the
Blinds and you can join them, but only the lower grades of elementary school,
then I sent again a letter to the minister that I have the secondary level and
you can test me, the response was again to return to the Institute, I
decided to repeat 12 years of my life and to complete my education and achieve
my ambitions, and trained in movement and self reliance and studied English in
America.
About his personal and
professional achievements, Al Turki
said: "I joined in 1981 the University of Oregon specializing in
international studies and sociology and obtained bachelor's degree with first
class, and attended the University of Washington in Seattle and got in 1988 a
master's degree in special education and continued my studies until I got a
master's degree with first honor degree in international relations from the
American University in Washington DC in 1992, and served as the head of the
Muslim students Federation in the north-west coast of the United States of
America during his university studies from 1981 - 1986 and worked as the first
political analyst in the Saudi embassy from 1990 to 1992, he got the United
Nations Cup as an international recognition for excellence in services for the
disabled and for the success in his business, and got a certificate of man of
the year in 2000 and a certificate of the national Golden key Society
ceremonial of Oregon Eugene University, and a certificate of B. gama
specialized in the field of social sciences, and a certificate of appreciation
from the King Abdul Aziz Association and
his men for the gifted people, also my CV was in extensive researches titled
"Outstanding people in the twentieth century," and I was able through
my articles and many of my visits to improve relations, government and
commercial departments of the disabled and to understand as it is and not as others
think. "
Al
Turki added "After I finished my studies I returned to the Kingdom and
found three job offers from Saudi Aramco Company and my family as well as
another company, but I preferred to work in the family company."
Al
Turki hopes that the disabled can get a job in any field, they are able to fill
any job at any place, whether in the public or private sectors, and concluded
with an advice to the of the business youth council of the necessity for optimism and the facing economic
challenges, and in conclusion the general secretary of the Chamber Abdul Rahman bin
Abdullah Al Wabel , and the head of Youth business Council Musaad bin Zamil
Al Zamil both honored Al Turki with a memorial shield.
