Al Ain Juniors School hosts AJ Sports and Health Fest

Media Release
February 14, 2019

Al Ain: Al Ain Juniors School organized “AJ Sports and Health Festival” in collaboration with all its stake holders, students, teachers, parents and wider community to spread awareness on healthy life style. The main motive in this year of tolerance 2019 was to collaborate with everyone in the community.

Featuring a number of Innovation displays, Melodious choir, acrobatic displays, games arena, Live Art, Science talk, Health check, blood donation campaign  and much more, the ‘AJ sports and Health Festival was organized by Al Ain Juniors School, Al Ain  on 7th February, 2019, marking a day of celebration and togetherness.

Excitement was rich in the air as people inched from one stall to the other taking in everything around them with nothing short of fascination.

The day began with the students singing the national anthem, and once again feeling grateful for all the wonderful opportunities this country has provided to everyone. The displays put up by Children from kindergarten to grade 12 provided a visual treat to the guests and parents. The AJ band also played throughout the event.  They definitely helped to set the scene for the school carnival.

As a part of the ‘Innovation Week’, a science exhibition was also held, which displayed the works of “the little Einsteins’ of Al Ain Juniors School.  Visitors fled into the exhibition hall as students presented their respective exhibits.  Another major attraction was the Live Art performance which was an innovation by itself was clearly one of the most beautiful things seen that day. The exhibits there were priceless.

AJ Talk was one among the highlights of the day. It provided opportunities for students to exhibit their journalistic skills. The media team of AJ Talk interviewed the guests, Mr. Hassan Al Shaqafa -Executive Senior Case Examiner, Mr. Mubarak Al Khitbi – Chairman Unified Sports and Rashid Al Dharmaky of Community Police,   Mr. Arshad Sherief, Chairman of AJ group, and a number of other important personalities present for the function, in the AJ Studio

The evening also witnessed the birth of two young authors into the World of English Literature. In the presence of a multitude of guests and parents, chief guest of the day released ‘Labyrinthine’ a collection of poems written and compiled by Miss. Wafa Naufal and Fahima Mubarak.

Being a sports and health festival, hospitals from vicinity of Al Ain had come to be part of the celebration by providing health checkups, healthy living instructions and blood donation campaign etc.

The entire event was spread out into eight venues with people throbbing into each of them like bees to a honeysuckle.

When entering through the gates of Al Ain Juniors the health corner by hospital and health centres such as NMC, Burjeel , Universal, Medeor  and Mubarak Medical centre welcomed the guests and parents . The health care was provided in the areas of dental care, blood tests, diabetics check up, orthopaedics and mobile blood bank from SEHA. The raffle draws conducted by Medeor kept the visitors energized and enthusiastic during the events. Apart from the above mentioned events they too had occasional health talks to create awareness about healthy living.

Science exhibits and science talks along with quiz mesmerised the visitors at the second venue. The scientists and future science experts dealt on varied topics in the auditorium.

Venue three was the main stage. Here the programs began with live Art under the guidance of talented and skilled Mr. Murukanandam , the Arts teacher of Al Ain Juniors. Students, on the canvas created a world of imagination and fantasy on the theme of sports and health. It was then followed by the formal inauguration of the AJ sports and Health fest 2019.This was also a platform for presenting the prizes for various events conducted during the festival and held before.

Moving to venue four, the play areas had the sports and fitness challenges after the acrobatic displays by students.

Those who wanted any information regarding fitness and other miscellanies the venue five was ready to cater with stalls set up for the purpose.

After going through medical check up at venue one and challenges presented at venue three, those who wished to learn a few healthy practices for healthy living on the daily basis, the venue six was ready with yoga sessions by experts for parents and students.

Delicious food and its aroma leave one’s mouth watering. Yes, AJ had provision to meet the hunger. Venue seven had the cookery competition; food court and at the same time on the stage next to it had AJ Choir and prize distributions. It also accommodated the upcoming entrepreneur of AJ with their stalls selling T-shirt with one’s name written on it, henna and nail polish designs for those who wanted to take some time to groom themselves.

And the final venue, the venue eight spread through the corridors of AJI Primary had the science exhibitions by the young Einsteins of AJ and at the far end corner had the AJ Studio with AJ Talk interviewing the guests and other dignitaries.

Anyone who spent time to visit all the eight venues would remain spell bound and needed to take a long sigh before they could realise they were still in AJ not in some where visiting a global villages. Overall it was a wonderful event to relish.

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Media Release
July 25,2020

In a humanitarian gesture to help fellow citizens in distress, the first in the series of chartered 
flights arranged by Thumbay Group, UAE and the Bearys Cultural Forum (BCF) Trust, 
Mangalore to repatriate stranded Kannadigas in the UAE took off from Ras Al Khaimah 
International Airport in the wee hours of 21st July 2020. The flight was fully occupied, with 186 passengers, all of them desperate to fly back to India for various reasons.

The initiative was conceived and implemented under the leadership of Dr. Thumbay Moideen - Founder President of Thumbay Group & Founder Patron of BCF and Dr. B K Yusuf, the 
President of BCF. The flight was organized on a purely charitable basis, with all necessary 
steps and precautions in place to ensure the safety and comfort of passengers. Thumbay Group assigned its fleet of buses to transport the passengers free of charge from their residences in Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman to the airport. The organizers also provided free meals and refreshments to the passengers, in addition to PPE kits and face-shields distributed free of 
charges.

The passengers on the first flight included many elderly individuals, people with serious 
illnesses like heart-related health issues and diabetes, pregnant ladies and little children as well as people who had lost their jobs and those with expired visas. Dr. B K Yusuf – BCF President, Dr. Kaup Mohammed - BCF General Secretary, other office bearers of BCF, as well as Thumbay Group’s representatives Mr. Farhad C – Director of the Hospitality Division of 
Thumbay Group and Engr. Farwaz P. C. – COO of the Construction Division were present at 
the airport to see off the first group of passengers.

Commenting on the initiative, Dr. Thumbay Moideen said, “This joint initiative of Thumbay 
Group and BCF is to support our fellow Kannadigas desperate to fly back home. We are happy that we have been able to reach out to many of them, to help them fly home to their families. We thank the Governments of the UAE and India, and the Indian Consulate, Dubai, for their support in making this happen. In the coming days, many more stranded Kannadigas would be repatriated under this joint initiative.”
Dr. B K Yusuf thanked Dr. Thumbay Moideen and the office-bearers and members of BCF for 
their efforts to make the initiative a success.

“We are proud that this initiative has brought relief to many Kannadigas and their families today. BCF is grateful to Thumbay Group for its support and partnership for all our humanitarian programs for the support of the needy.”

Dr. Kaup Mohammed said that it was a matter of pride that the much-awaited Thumbay-BCF 
repatriation flight had been carried out successfully. “Measures have been taken to ensure the safety of the flight and its passengers throughout the journey,” he said. He also thanked all the social organizations including Bhatkal Jamath, BCCI, BWF, KCF, DKSC, Kodagu Kannadigas, 
Kannadiga Help Line, Dubai Konkans and KSS, for their support. He specially thanked Mr. 
Syed Hassan Razeen, the owner of ARISTOCRAT Travels for his support in the ticketing, 
boarding and related processes. On behalf of Milano Optics Group and Maxcare, free gift 
hampers were distributed to selected passengers.

The passengers were received at Mangalore airport under the leadership of Mr. Mumtaz Ali - patron of BCF and other distinguished personalities of Mangalore including Mr. Moidin Bava - former MLA, Mr U. T. Ifthikhar, Mr. S. M. R Rashid - President of BCCI central committee and many others. The passengers were transferred to the hotels where they had registered for the mandatory quarantine.

The second flight under this joint initiative is scheduled to take-off from Ras Al Khaimah airport to Mangalore on 24th July 2020. A few more similar repatriation flights are to soon follow, in the coming weeks.

 

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January 5,2020

Kuwait: Friday Forum Kuwait conducted its 12th inter-school Islamic Elocution Competition at Hotel Rajadhani Palace, Khaitan on 1st January 2020. 

The competition, which was held in the senior and junior categories had participation from 15 Indian Schools across Kuwait comprising of 43 students. In the senior category, Ayisha Wafiya of Indian Community School, Khaitan bagged the first prize and Efrem Joseph of Indian Community School, Amman won the second prize. 

In the junior category, Hima Jameela of Indian Community School, Khaitan bagged the first prize and Fadhel Kandapath of Fahaheel Al Wataniya Indian School won the second prize. Nawaal Yaseen Ebrahim of Indian Community School (SR), Salmiya and Rhruthunanda of Indian Learners Own Academy, Abbasiya won the consolation prizes in senior and junior categories respectively.

This year, the event was fully conducted by the ladies wing of Friday Forum. Dr. Thasneem Amir, Ibtisam Basheer, Toast Masters Ola Rasheed, Fatma Abduhedeid, Shazia Thabassum and Marium Rangat were the judges for the competition in senior and junior categories. The event started with the Qira’at by Saneera Riyas, followed by welcome speech by Dr. Sajna Mohammed. 

The prizes were distributed to winners by Shahina Mansoor, Femitha Faseeh, Dr.Thasneem Amir, Dr. Sajna Mohammed, Zeenath Yacoub, Safna Sayam and Saneera Riyas. The Souvenir for the program - “INSPERIA 2020”- was released during the event by the chief editor Farha Abdul Rahman. The program was compered by Thanveera Noushad and the program convenor Subeana Shabeer conveyed the vote of thanks.

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June 17,2020

Doha: Qatar Indian Social Forum (QISF) once again set an example that no caste, creed, language and religion comes as hurdle for their humanitarian services and helped to perform last rites of Ramesh who committed suicide in Doha-Qatar.

45-year-old Ramesh son of K. Nagan hailing from Panikulam, Thrissur district in Kerala, who was working as a tailor committed suicide in his house at Ruwias in Qatar on 30th May 2020.

On hearing this news, some of his friends in Kearla informed Mr. Shihab who is also from Thrissur and a member of QISF and the same was brought to the notice of QISF humanitarian team head Mr. Abdul Latheef Madikeri and Basheer Ahmed of Tamil Nadu.

Immediately, the QISF team intervened and contacted the family members of the deceased in India and discussed the matter and consequences of sending the body back home to India in this pandemic COVID 19 situation.

Considering the prevailing situation, the family members gave the consent to bury the body in Qatar itself.

QISF team collected the required documents from the family of the deceased and managed to clear all the necessary formalities from the police department, Health Department, Embassy of India and Hamad Medical Corporation.

Finally, the body of the deceased was buried in Qatar on 7th June 2020 and the copies of all the relevant documents have been handed over to the family members.

The family members of the deceased thanked and applauded the leaders and all the members of QISF for their effective and on time humanitarian service rendered even in this pandemic crisis and having no bias.

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