Fun-filled evening keeps ‘JF Coastal Festival 2015’ crowd ecstatic

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May 8, 2015

Dammam: The month of April 2015 began with a dreadful sand-storm which kept the people’s mood unstable and for many days the weather kept alarming the uncertainty in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. On April 16, Jam’iyyatul Falah’s volunteers had the faith in Allah and His blessings and kept their preparation in full swing for the annual event of family-get-together ‘JF Coastal Festival 2015’. The pleasant evening had extinguished the fear of misfortune and brought back the mood of festival with a huge gathering of above 1500 people.

The promise made by the JF event organizers had given the crowd a wonderful opportunity to bring together the spirit of Mangaluru and created the environment of Festival. The theme of the event ‘Our Community is Better Together’ has fulfilled with joy and excitement. Men, women and children had discovered an amazing native atmosphere of Mangaluru.

The radiant and enjoyable social event offered by one of the distinguished society of Mangalore Diaspora arranged by the charitable organization ‘Jam’iyyatul Falah’ (Dammam Unit), a Karnataka State award winner for .Best NGO.

The evening was filled with fun and frolic, Quran recitation competition for different age groups children, Quiz Competition for Adult and different types of games for Children and Adult with much more fun and excitement had kept the crowd entertaining till 3:00am. The event also brought together the spirit & essence of Karnataka.

The celebration commenced as scheduled with an introductory speech by the President of JF Dammam Unit Mohammad Wahid and the Qirath by Master Salman Ashraf had opened team event. Immediately followed the dinner and the dinner was the ‘Taste of the Evening’ which squeezed and jammed the crowd to taste the scrumptious and lip-smacking food catered by the famous Indian Restaurant “Batkhal House” of Dammam. The mouth-watering Indian cuisine creates a center of attention to the crowd and enjoyed the yummy and delicious native taste.

The attractive kiosk from Al Jufailah Corporation, the sole distributor of Al-Kabeer Frozen Products, had pulled the crowd with their appetizing aroma to taste the sample of their new products. Suhana Travel sponsored one-way Air-Ticket to Mangalore for the winner of Raffle prizes. Diamond Gift voucher sponsored by Malabar Gold, Al-Khobar.

The entire evening was filled with various funs and exciting games for children and adults and it was well organized by Javed Saeed and his team. The attractive prizes were presented to all the winners immediately after each game. The evening was later triggered with “Quiz Competition” and the Quiz Master very efficiently and meticulously handled the competition and did a commendable job by keeping the crowd entertained.

All programs and its activities were conducted under Islamic environment and the event had provided a book stall by Shanthi Prakashana which displayed the Islamic books in Kannada language.

JF Members kept the momentum moving by diverting the crowd with the announcement of each winner of 20 Raffle Prizes, which was drawn after every 15 minutes and the winning excitement in every person made the Raffle Round more ecstatic. The event also offered the Mega Prize and the winner took their prizes with wonderful memories of the delightful evening.

At the women’s section, several games were organized for different age groups. The girls were cherished and enjoyed the fun. The women’s organizing committee had skillfully managed the program and brilliantly implemented the games for adult and children which successfully accomplished the task provided to each volunteers. All the winners were presented with the attractive prizes.

The Ex-President P. B. A. Razak of JF-HQ in Mangalore on his visit of Saudi Arabia was felicitated during the Event. NRCC Ameer Mohammad Farook presented the Memento and Event Chairman Munaf draped the Shawl together with the Committee Members of JF Dammam Unit. The Mega event “JF Coastal Festival 2015” was exclusively sponsored by “Gulf Co-operation Symbols Contracting Co. Ltd.”, “NADA (Al-Othman Agri. Production and Processing Co.)” and “Azmeel Contracting Co.”.

The magnificent evening had witnessed the success of the Event and displayed the hard-work of the Event’s Working Committee. In the early hours of dawn, thrilled spectators made a reluctant exit from the venue, thoroughly lost in the magical spell cast on them during an unforgettable night. JF once again create an example to others by innovating and reaching for something even better.

Sadiq Ahmed proposed vote of thanks immediately after announcing the winner of Super Mega Prizes.

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May 2,2020

Dubai: In response to UAE health authorities encourage blood donation campaign Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta - U.A.E, conducted blood donation camps on April 22 at Abu Dhabi Blood Bank Khaldiya and on 23/04/2020 at Blood Transfusion and Research Centre, Sharjah.

The Abu Dhabi camp was inaugurated by Head of Department of Abu Dhabi Blood Bank, On this occasion she gave brief inputs of the benefits and features of blood donation, urged the participants to spread greater awareness about the importance of blood donation and congratulated the AKO members for their selfless social service and wished all the best for their future endeavours.

Abdul Rasheed, President of AKO presided over the function and Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta Vice President Mr. Mohammad Nasir appreciated the effort for organizing this camp and gathering youths to be a part of this noble cause as life is precious on this earth. "Each drop of blood counts much, so kindly take it as personal compassion to help unknown who requires blood with no relatives to help him/her.

In Abu Dhabi 41 and in Sharjah 49 donors participated in this event and donated their blood. It was nice to see cheerful smiling donors doing a great community work.
Blood bank staff and AKO Organizing team enthusiastically arranged the campaign which was witnessed by many members and leaders of various community organization of Karnataka.

Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta President briefed the participates about the ongoing social work of AKO in this current COVID-19 pandemic grim situation AKO is working on following fields: AKO Members have stepped up to support needy community during the Covid-19 pandemic have gone out of their way to comfort those struggling to deal with the challenging situation.

While thousands of people continue to #StayHome, many are in quarantine, there are those on visit visa and stuck here, others have lost jobs or face salary cuts. AKO in coordination with UAE Embassy and other social organization have been able to ensure basic necessities are fulfilled with food provisions and medical assistance to needy.

Providing counselling to bachelors and families those are on quarantine and isolation.

The organizers thanked everybody especially, UAE Health Authority, Abu Dhabi Blood Bank Khaldiya and Blood Transfusion and Research Centre, Sharjah, Management and staff as well as donors for their time and support for the good cause.

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June 24,2020

The Overseas Indian Cultural Congress (OICC), Bahrain, has charted aircrafts to repatriate stranded expatriates to India. 

Boby Parayil, General Secretary, OICC National Committee, Bahrain has thanked all those who supported in this cause.

“The aircrafts were not licensed and were in crisis until the last minute. Finally, Mohammed Mansoor, president of Bahrain chapter of Indian Overseas Congress approached IOC Middle East in charge Dr Arathi Krishna, who helped get permission to operate flight to Kozhikode,” he said in a release. 

All mandatory approvals from the Foreign Ministry of Affairs and other government officials were accomplished by Dr Arathi Krishna. OICC has expressed gratitude to her for her timely support, he said. 

OICC is also grateful to former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy for doing necessary arrangements to get all the approvals for flight landing in Kerala, he added.

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Media Release
June 4,2020

Dr Soofi Anwar, Director Academics of University of Stirling RAK, UAE Campus, has achieved the prestigious professional recognition of Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) UK. He has achieved this milestone through the Stirling Framework for Evidencing Learning and Teaching Enhancement (SFELTE), the Continuing Professional Development Framework (CPD) for learning and teaching at University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. 

He was recognized for this achievement on recently concluded virtual Learning & Teaching Conference-2020 organized by University of Stirling Campus in UK.  He has secured his Ph.D. in Management from University of Azteca, Mexico.

Dr. Soofi Anwar has over 20 years of experience in teaching and academic leadership at higher education level and has worked in leading universities in UAE, Bahrain and India. He was conferred the prestigious Middle East Education Leadership Award, as the Best Professor in Management-2018 in recognition of his academic excellence, exemplary leadership in higher education. Prior to his current role, he has worked on leadership position in Birla Institute of Technology Offshore Campus RAK.

He has completed his MBA from Dept. of Business Administration, Mangalore University in 1999 and his B. Com degree from Canara College Mangaluru.

He has published numerous research papers in management and in the area of teaching and learning in higher education in reputed academic journals and international conferences proceedings. He is a member of editorial board of two leading management journals and engaged in reviewing faculty research publications in the area of management and marketing. 

He is a son of Haji Abdul Khadar Kodijal and Mrs. Mariyamma from Konaje, Mangaluru.

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