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Omani Spanish
Friendship Association (OSFA), was founded in 2003 as Spanish
Cultural Centre by the initiative of Honorary Consulate of Kingdom
of Spain with the approval of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman.
From the beginning the centre was created as a result of Omani
public demand to learn the Spanish language and culture. The Centre
has started with 6 students and now we are happy to say that under
the Omani Spanish Friendship Association, we had seen an enormous
increase. As during the year 2007 more than 250 students had
enrolled for Spanish language and cultural courses. The Association
had offered a scholarship to two outstanding students to further
their learning in Spanish language and culture in Lewis School in
Barcelona in 2006. This has been possible with the Sponsorship of
Union Fenosa Gas Spain.
In 2007, the Omani government represented by the Ministry of Foreign
invited us to create the Omani Spanish Friendship Association, a non
profit association which consists of an agreement between people of
Oman and Spain with an objective to strength the dialogue between
this two countries. Seeing this as an opportunity for bringing the
Omani Spanish culture based in our first initial objective to answer
the interest of Omani in learning the language and knowing the
Spanish culture. On the other hand, the Omani students who had an
interest in the Spanish Culture are keen to also interchange through
learning the Spanish Culture and showing the Omani culture to the
Spanish Society.
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