Saudi Women Take Driving Lessons From Expat Instructors

The absence of driving schools in Madinah has obliged various Saudi ladies in the city to acknowledge offers from expatriate ladies to train them driving for an expense of SR30 60 minutes, as per the Arabic daily Makkah.

The expat educators set commercials via web-based networking media offering to show Saudi ladies how to drive. The advertisements before long ended up viral on the Internet.  The educators said if Saudi ladies wished to pay month to month, the preparation will cost them SR1,500. 

The absence of driving schools for ladies in a few urban communities or the deferral in setting a date for them to seek exercises obliged some of them to yield to alluring offers from exile educators. 

Khlood Al-Harbe, a Saudi lady, said she connected for a specific school to pick up driving and has been sitting tight for over five months for the school to call her for the preparation. 

"I attempted to contact the school by phone and email yet there was no reaction from its side," she said. 

Rania Saleh said in the city where she lives, there is no school to train ladies driving however it is one of the huge urban areas in the Kingdom. 

“I am still waiting for a school to be opened so as to obtain a driving license. I do not know the reasons for the delay though almost a year has passed since the royal decree allowing women to drive was issued,” she said.

Ahoud Sultan said she needed to pay an exile coach SR1,500 to train her driving after she sat tight futile for over a half year after she connected to a driving school. 

she said, “When I learn driving, I will go to one of the GCC countries to obtain a driving license, which I will exchange here.”

Hala Al-Azizi said she was prepared on driving by an expatriate mentor for two months amid which she was sitting tight for a meeting with the school. 

An exile lady coach said she has a driving permit that she had gotten abroad and substituted with a Saudi one. 

“I teach Saudi women driving for SR1,500 a month or SR30 an hour,” she said.

Another exile teacher said she realizes driving however does not have a Saudi driving permit. "Be that as it may, I instruct Saudi ladies driving for SR150 every day," she included. 

The driving schools will acknowledge Saudi ladies for the preparation that is required to qualify them for getting a driving permit in the event that they know the fundamentals and have a driving permit from any nation regardless of whether it is terminated. They ought to have in any event auxiliary school instruction and ought to be between 22-40 years old and have no criminal records. 

The absence of driving schools for ladies in a few urban communities or the deferral in setting a date for them to want exercises obliged some of them to yield to luring offers from exile educators.