KMYA Sambhrama-2018 turns in Mangalurean festival in Riyadh

Media Release
April 7, 2018

Riyadh: The Katipalla Muslim Youth Association (KMYA) recently organized a family get together, KMYA-Sambhrama 2018 at Al Roshd Resort in Riyadh.

The event began with a recitation of the holy Quran by Master Arsh Habeeb. In nightlong entertainment program, KMYA felicitated the philanthropists and well-wishers who supported KMYA’s charity programs.

Mohammed Sadiq, CEO of RACC contracting Company, Santhosh Shetty, MD of Khadesiah Medical Center and President of KWAR and Karnataka NRI Forum, Abdul Aziz Bankal, president DKMO Riyadh were the chief guests at the event. PS Abdul Aziz, KMYA president welcomed the guests at the event.

Singer Abdul Samad Katipalla was the master of ceremony. Participants with their family and friends were seen enjoying the nonstop entertainment by Abdul Samad that made them stick to their seats until the end of the function. The audience cheered to the Beary qawwali, skits, and songs.

Mangalurean traditional dinner welcomed the crowd to this mega event. The food court was a special attraction. The participants enjoyed different types of Mangalurean snacks. A medical checkup camp was organized and sponsored by Khadesiah Medical Center.

Beary poetry concert was another special attraction at the event. Abdul Samad and his team presented poems written by prominent Beary writers Ibrahim Thannirubavi, B.A Mohammed Ali Kammaradi, Hussain Katipalla, Basheer Keenya, Ashraf Apollo and Mohammed Baddoor. Students of Alif International School presented a Duff play.

Alif International School organized a drawing competition for children of all age groups. True talents emerged with beautiful artwork and winners were awarded. Quran reciting competition for children was conducted at the program. All participants received consolation prizes.

The huge gathering during this period of a recession was a shining example of the passion of KMYA members towards charity works to support the needy back home. The KMYA team spirit was very much appreciated and their efforts to support the downtrodden community touched the hearts of the participants. KMYA is a non-profit charity association established in 1989 by members of Katipalla Muslim Jamath living in Saudi Arabia. Since then it is supporting the poor families in and around Katipalla village of Mangaluru Taluq.

Expertise Contracting Co., Great Mountains Industrial Services, PAPYROL Paper Products and RACC Contracting Co., were the main sponsors while Rooftech, LuLu Hypermarkets, Universal, Khadesiah Medical Center and Friendi Mobile were the co-sponsors for the event.

Sports competitions were held separately for Children, Ladies, and gents. A number of spot games and competitions and quiz were held with attractive prizes.

In a final closing message, event chairman Sulaiman Abdul Rahman thanked the sponsors and participants for their continued support to KMYA. More than 60 volunteers were thanked for their contribution to the success of the event. The entire KMYA team pledged to utilize the fund raised from this event to support the helpless NRIs and needy people back home.

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Abdul aziz katipalla
 - 
Sunday, 8 Apr 2018

Alhumdullila..KMYA sambhrama 2018 was a great success. .jazakh allahu khairan to all my KMYA members for your hard work.

Mohammed basheer
 - 
Saturday, 7 Apr 2018

Congratulations KMYA Your sincere efforts and hardwork is indeed highly appreciated. You should be proud of yourselves. Congratulations to all! Keep up the good work guys!

Zakir Roshan
 - 
Saturday, 7 Apr 2018

Alhumdullila mashaallah very gud experience with our KMYA members.. may almighty allah praise everyone .. As this main motive of our gathering was for charity cause.. Alhumdullila successfully gathered.. And we are proud to be the members of KMYA.. 

Zubair Katipalla
 - 
Saturday, 7 Apr 2018

Nice and well organized programme  

Ismail Katipal…
 - 
Saturday, 7 Apr 2018

Masha Allah, well organized function. Nice to see all members one stage.

Ismail Katipalla(Gen. Secretary, KMYA DAMMAM)

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May 22,2020

Mangaluru, May 22: An elderly cardiac patient from Dakshina Kannada, who was stranded in Saudi Arabia due to covid-19 lock-down, has finally reached his homeland thanks to the timely intervention by Humanity Forum Jubail and Indian Social Forum.

The elderly man hailing from Kadaba area of Dakshina Kannada was admitted to a hospital in Madinah. However, his condition continued to worsen due to lack of proper treatment. The efforts by his family members to bring him back home had not yielded results.

Meanwhile, one of the relatives of the patient, Ansari Suratkal, who happens to be a DKSC activist, brought the issue to the notice of the Karnataka unit of the Indian Social Forum in Dammam. ISF contacted Humanity Forum president Zakariya Jokatte, who helped the patient to speak directly union minister D V Sadananda Gowda in a video conference organised by coastaldigest.com.

Humanity Forum also persuaded the Indian Embassy to allow the stranded cardiac patient to fly back to India through Dammam-Bengaluru repatriation flight on May 20. 

However, it was not easy for the patient to travel from Madinah to Dammam International Airport due to lock-down and curfew. ISF not only obtained travel permission for him but also arranged vehicle. Jeddah and Riyadh units of ISF helped in obtaining permission letter in their respective places in spite of travel ban imposed by the police. Madinah unit of ISF arranged vehicle for transportation. Zakariya Jokatte bore the air ticket and other expenses of the patient.

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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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Agencies
August 8,2020

Dubai, Aug 7: One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board.

According to India's Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to Kozhikode overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday evening. There were 184 passengers including 10 infants, 2 pilots and four cabin crew onboard the aircraft.

Noufal Moin Vetten, an Ajman resident working as an office boy in a Sharjah school, was booked to travel on the flight and had checked in as per schedule.

Recounting his miraculous escape, Vetten, a resident of Malappuram, Thirunavaya, whose visa was cancelled a week ago, told Gulf News: “I was handed my boarding pass, but when I reached immigration, they told me I had to pay a fine of Dh 1,000 (Rs 20,430) for overstay. I had only Dh 500 (Rs10,215) with me.

"I called my school PRO and he told me to come back. He said they would follow protocols and pay the fines before sending me,“ he said.

Vetten was disappointed and called his family to let them know.

“When I heard about the crash, I was saddened for all the passengers. But I'm so relieved I missed it. God has been really merciful,” said Vetten.

Afsal Parrakodan, a resident of Abu Dhabi, had a similar stroke of luck.

“My work visa was cancelled about a week ago. After getting my boarding pass, I was told I had to pay a fine of Dh1,000 at the immigration counter, but I had only Dh500 on me.”

“I was very keen to board the flight and be with my family. So I called a friend who brought me the additional Dh500, but by then, my baggage had been offloaded and the flight's doors were closed,” said Parrakodan.

“I was feeling very sad and called my mother to tell her I had missed the flight. But a few hours later, when I learnt of the crash, I couldn’t help but feel relieved and thankful to God for saving my life,“ said an overwhelmed Parrakodan who plans to fly back next week. 

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