Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Education Minister Abbas Halabi visited the Saint Jude Children's Cancer Center of the American University of Beirut, where the official exams for the high school diploma are being held.

Mikati was informed about the progress of the exams and also met with a number of students who are taking the exams in an atmosphere and modalities adapted to their situation. He said: "Today we are continuing our visits to the examination centers, as if the Lebanese were always destined to take up the challenge. We were in the south last week and we saw the students there taking their exams under the shelling, moving from one village to another".

He noted "the will to live among the young women and men of the Saint Jude Center, at the American University, they are organizing exams, we will arm ourselves with knowledge, hope and faith, and we will reach the shore of security".

Mikati wrote a speech in the center's registry in which he said: "The challenge is the destiny of the Lebanese, and today we are in this center which is the incubator of the challenge, the challenge of life, hope and faith. The Saint Jude Center is a beacon of treatment and humanitarian work for every injured child. May God guide your steps and heal your patients".

For his part, Halabi said: "This is the third year that we have come to the Children's Cancer Center to support our children and our students who have been affected by the disease, but it has not been the case but it has not affected their willpower, their faith in life and their love of science ". "I greet them as well as the administrators of this center which performs a national humanitarian service, and good luck to all the students", he concluded.