Dammam: ‘JF Coastal Festival 2017’ creates a carnival for expat families

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April 18, 2017

Dammam: The Jam’iyyatul Falah organized a family-get-together under the banner of “JF Coastal Festival 2017” on 6th April 2017 at the Al-Zaana Ishtirah at Faisaliyah in Dammam, eastern province of Saudi Arabia. The event’s motto “Our Community is Better Together” had created the atmosphere of a family carnival.

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The event began with the recitation of Holy Quran, followed by welcome speech from JF Dammam Unit President and the event Chairman opened the gathering which boosted the energy and enthusiasm of all the participants and volunteers of the event.

Later in the evening, lots of games conducted by event sports coordinators had placed everyone on their toes with their remarkable talents, wit and humor. As the joyful evening proceeded games for all age groups witnessed active participation and great excitement from all the attendees at the venue. EXCOM and volunteers ensured that the events carried on seamlessly.

An abundant supply of snacks and drinks were great energizers throughout the evening. While the children competed in sack race and many other games, the parents too were just as much into cheering and encouraging all the children. Boys, Girls and Adults too had their share of fun reliving old days with sack race, tug-of-wars and more.

The chief guests of the evening – Amjad Wajid (MD of UIPS), Sudeer (MD of Idealink), Amir Musthaq (Finance Manager of UNICOIL), Khalid Al-Ghamdi (Marketing Head of GCS), Mohammad Muzaffer (Finance Manager of Azmeel), Abdul Hakkeem (Regional Manager of Al-Kabeer Food), Sadashiv Poojary (President of MASA) and Abdul Waris (Chairman of IISD) – has expressed their delight to be a part of the event wherein people from the coastal belt of Karnataka State had gathered and united as a family.

The Kiosk from different FMCG companies such as INDOMINE, AL-KABEER, NADA JUICE, SWITZ CAKES and ORLANDA MILK had offered lip-smacking food and beverages which attracted and pulled the crowd with their appetizing aroma to taste the sample of their new products. The most attractive Kiosk of the evening was the DANDY Ice Cream, which served different types of flavors and kept the crowd on their toes specially children. The traditional Indian sweet ‘Jalibee’ has engrossed the crowd throughout the evening. The delicious sumptuous dinner with varieties of Indian cuisine from Golden Spoon Restaurant had served to delight all the guests throughout the evening.

Ensuring that the members remain active for the entire day, the Quiz Master conducted quiz for adults with interesting questions related to Islamic, GK, History, Geography and Sports with exciting raffle-draw prizes was announced from time-to-time. Housie housie had captivated the crowd. All the committee members worked with joy and fun as a team throughout the evening. In the long run, the event of “JF Coastal Festival 2017” was beautifully organized and the audience was overwhelmed whole evening.

Toward the end of the evening, the winners of Qirath competition and all other games were presented the exciting prizes and the announcement of the Mega Prize winner marked the event closing.

The grand event of “JF Coastal Festival 2017” was exclusively sponsored by NADA (Al-Othman Agri. Production and Processing Co.), Gulf Cooperation Symbols Co., Saudi Pan Gulf, Saleh & Abdulaziz Abahsain Co. and many others.

Vote of thanks was extended to all the committee members, sponsors, families, friends and well-wishers who made the evening a very good celebration with never ending memories.

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April 19,2020

Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) Chaiman Dr Sam Pitroda held video conference with senior IOC office bearers across Middle Eastern countries on 14th April 2020 to review the impact of COVID-19 pandemic among Indians residing in the region. Almost all speakers appreciated the efforts initiated and  implemented by  respective governments to contain spread of the deadly virus as well as measures taken towards welfare of the people affected by the lockdown. 

IOC Presidents, Mohammed Mansour - Bahrain, Abdullah Manjeri - Saudi Arabia, Dr J Ratan kunar - Oman and Girish kumar - Qatar, highlighted the quality treatment of patients and finacial aid provided by governments and other authorities. Bahrain IOC president Mansour , also  apprised about the 'Food for Needy' drive in Association with KHK Heroes foundation, initiated by HH Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Al Khalifa and quality treatments as well as financial aid to local and expat residents.

Anura Mathai, IOC  Global Event Coordinator, spoke about certain problems of Indians in the UAE. IOC Middle East Convener, Mansoor Palloor, emphasised and requested IOC Chairman to urge Indian government to arrange immediate repatriation of indians stranded in Gulf countries. AICC Secretary, Himanshu Vyas, IOC Secretary Dr Arathi Krishna, Dr Arshi Malik (Abha), Mohiuddin Sirajudeen (Jeddah), Advocate Joseph Palathara (Dammam) Prasad Kodru, Jayati Maitra Ziyad Ahmed (Qatar) and Khursheed Alam (Gen Secretary- Bahrain) also apprised the participants about various issues relevant to the pandemic and suggested further initiatives to be undertaken. 

Dr Sam Pitroda briefed about sustained and consolidated efforts by all IOC members  during this unprecedented situation facing the world and assured that he would convey IOC  concerns to the government and try his best to ensure all possible help is made available to all needy Indians.

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Sushma Bangera
June 4,2020

Kuwait: The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed the whole world into a difficult situation and the situation of Indians in Kuwait is not any different. Many people have lost their jobs, have no salary, are deprived of food and are not able to pay rent. The appalling conditions of labourers, domestic workers, taxi drivers and low waged earners don’t seem to end in Kuwait. 

At this trying situation when many people were even afraid of leaving their houses because of coronavirus, Suresh S. Rao Neramballi, volunteer of the Food Kit Distribution at the ICSG (Indian Community Support Group) has helped many tremendously. He was ready to go around delivering food kits at any time possible by his car. However, after Kuwait imposed a full curfew from 11th May 2020, no one could take out their vehicles unless they had a curfew pass. 

This did not stop Mr. Suresh Neramballi, who then borrowed a bicycle from a friend and ended up going around in the cycle delivering the food kits in curfew break time (4:30pm to 6:30pm) to all those who registered in the ICSG website. This selfless service surely commands appreciation and applause. Mr. Suresh Neramballi has been a light for many families and bachelors in Kuwait and will surely garner the blessings of them who have been able to eat at this time.

He was also the one who could deliver the food kits to many Indian Muslim maids, bachelors, laborers and families previous day and right on the day of EID, as they were not able to go shopping for their groceries for EID, due to the curfew. They blessed him in EID dua. 

Mr. Suresh Neramballi hails from Mangaluru, India and is an Engineer in the Oil sector company in Kuwait. He has been dedicated to social service, achieved 'Aryabhata International Award' for his Kannada Service and Social service, served in many Associations and Distributor of Kannada and Tulu Movies in Kuwait. He wholeheartedly thanks the people and government of Kuwait for his bread and butter.

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Tanveer
 - 
Friday, 5 Jun 2020

May Almighty Allah shower His mescifull blessing on you and your family... Your selfless service will always be remembered,,,

M SHARIEF SULTAN
 - 
Thursday, 4 Jun 2020

God bless you and your family

abdullah
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Thursday, 4 Jun 2020

God bless you brother and keep you healthy plus happy always.   You will be in the prayers of those who receivec your timely regardles they are hindu or muslim or christian.   This is a slap on the face of hate mongers who are always trying to divide the socieity in the name of religion.    Such people are burden to this world and society.   We should clean our society from such dirt and bad people.   Well done brother.  May God bless you.

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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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