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Kuwait: Kiran Sunny elected SACAA President

[email protected] (Media Release)
December 6, 2016

Kuwait: St Aloysius College Alumni Association (SACAA), Kuwait held its Annual General Body meeting at Salmiya, Kuwait under leadership of the outgoing President Ashley D’Silva.

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L to R Sitting – Noah, Henon, Kiran,Neil :1st Row L to R – Darrel, Sujay, Alzeena, Prashanth, Vijesh, Lloyd

SACAA Kuwait is in existence from 11 + years when like-minded Aloysianalumni based in Kuwait felt the need to bond together and re-live those memories and importantly support the Alma Mater wherever possible.

Proceedings began with a brief self-introduction of every member present followed by the outgoing President Mr. Ashley D’Silva welcoming everyone to the gathering. This was followed by the Treasurers report given by Mr. Neethan Cutinha who accounted for thevarious events that were conducted during the last two years. Also, a moment of silence was observed in remembrance of the very active and supportive alumni,Mr. Cyril Peris.

The elections for the new committee were conducted by the Election Commissioner, Mr. Sudhakar Shetty, a senior SACAA member.

Following are the members elected as Office Bearers for the term 2016-2018:
President – Kiran Sunny
Vice President – Prashanth Karivellur
Treasurer – Lloyd Mendonca
General Secretary –Darrell D’Souza
Secretary, Member Affairs – Neil Menezes
Sports & Cultural Secretary – Aloy Vijesh D’Mello
Secretary, Public Relations – Henon Aranha
Joint General Secretary –Sanjay (Sujay) Martis
Joint Secretary, Member Affairs –Noah Fernandes
Sports & Cultural Joint Secretary –Alzeena Pinto
Mr. Ashley D’Silva was nominated as the President of the Advisory Committee.

Mr. Kiran Sunny, the newly elected president in his inaugural message asked for the support of not only the committee but the entire SACAA Alumni fraternity in Kuwait for their wholehearted cooperation & support to make this a successful term. The new committee, assured members of dedicatedly carrying out their assigned duties and responsibilities as office bearers of SACAA Kuwait, by conducting various social, cultural and community based developmental activities that would promote the primary purpose of the association i.e. to give an opportunity to the Kuwait based Aloysian alumni to network amongst each other, bringing together both senior and young members. The annual GBM and elections concluded with a sumptuous dinner catered by Caesars.

All non-registered Aloysian alumni residing in Kuwait are kindly requested to register their names as members of SACAA Kuwait by emailingtheir personal details to [email protected]. Keeping up with modern social media trends, the SACAA Kuwait Facebook page “SACAA-KUWAIT” allows alumni to register themselves giving them an opportunity to connect with other Kuwait based members. In addition, constant updates regarding the association and its activities are provided to registered members through a Whatsapp group. Alumni in Kuwait who wish to be part of this group are encouraged to contact +965 66181041 for further details.

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Media Release
July 30,2020

Jeddah: The first chartered flight for repatriation passengers from Jeddah to Bengaluru organized by Karnataka NRI Forum Jeddah – Saudi Arabia was successfully landed at Bengaluru airport by 01.00 am on 19th July 2020.

Spice Jet (SG9884) departed from King Abdul Aziz International Airport Jeddah by 05.00 pm local time with 177 stranded passengers which includes 12 Pregnant Woman, 3 infants, 44 Short term visa holders, 3 medical emergency patients and 115 migrate workers and labours from various districts of Karnataka state.

Karnataka NRI Forum Jeddah, a registered charitable organization under Government of Karnataka & Indian Consulate Jeddah - Saudi Arabia, helping the Kannadigas overseas & in Karnataka State as well, has initiated major role for helping stranded Kannadigas to travel back to home. During Pandemic hundreds of stranded Kannadigas were approached to the forum and requested to arrange special chartered flight to Bengaluru from Jeddah.

Initiating from collecting the data of passengers, the forum’s special panel including its President Mr. Mohammed Mansoor, Secretary Mr. Peter Mascarenes, Vice Presidents Mr. Nasir Khurshid, Dr.Ashfaque Maniyar, Chief Coordinator Mr. Shaikh Saoud, Cultural Secretaries Mr. Arifulla Shariff and Mr. Rajesh Suvarna, Treasurer Mr. Habib Rahman and Press Secretary Mr. Baig, the forum’s members have worked very hard to conclude this task very successful. 

The forum provided food packets as refreshment, complementary PPE kitsto each passenger as precaution against the spread of any infections while travelling and also guided all passengers by supporting them in Awdha portal (Saudi Passport Department) and Seva Sindhu portal registration of Government of Karnataka.

The official travel partner ITL Travel Management Company has rendered remarkable service to the passengers not only in ticketing but also supported with top priority in confirming the aircraft from SPICE JET and availed good service from ground staff at Jeddah Airport. 

All passengers have reached safely to their homes after completing the 7 days institutional quarantine at Bengaluru. 100% passengers had NEGETIVE report on Covid-19 test made on arrival as well as after institutional quarantine. 

In the press release published from the President, Mr. Mohammed Mansoor has expressed his prodigious gratitude to the Ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia H. E. Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, Deputy Consul General of India - Jeddah Mr. Y Saber and Chief Minister of Karnataka State Shri B. S. Yediyurappafor providing necessary approvals and NOC for the chartered flight operation. He also conveyed his boundless appreciationto Shri B. Y. Raghavendra, Member of Parliament Shimoga District (Karnataka) for his swift support extended to the forum and as well to Dr. Aarathi Krishna, Ex-Deputy Chairperson – NRI Forum of Karnataka – Government of Karnataka for her significant guidance and support on completing this mission.

The forum has thanked all the officers in King Abdul Aziz International Airport Jeddah and Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru for the facilities provided to the passengers. The Forum has thanked all passengers travelled for their calmness and also thanked to all other members of the forum, Staff of ITL Travels and SPICE JET for their tremendous support extended throughout the mission accomplishment.

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Media Release
August 9,2020

Kuwait City, Aug 9: Indian social forum organised Blood Donation Camp in association with central blood bank kuwait on Friday, 7th August 2020.

The forum organised camp to support the high demand of blood in the context of COVID-19.

All arrangements to maintain COVID-19 protocol were made in the camp including segregation of donors as branch wise batches along with strict safety measures of participants.

Forum also had donated blood to many patients during the lockdown period. 

Hundreds of people donated blood in the camp. The camp organised in Blood Bank, Jabriya was successfully managed by Dr. Asma Rafat and leaders of Indian social forum Vice President Aslam, Secretory Sayyid Bukhari Thangal, Moideen Koya, Khaleel, Aseem, Mohammed Sha, Shihab, Naushad,
Indian Social Forum expressed their deep appreciation and gratitude to the doctors, staff and management of blood bank, forum’s members and donors.



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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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