Dammam: Students Fraternity Forum holds ‘Students Fest ’13

Dammam, Jan 5: Students Fraternity Forum organised Students’ Fest’13 and prizes for the winners of essay contest were also distributed. 

The programme was inaugurated by Dr. Mohamed Shafi, Principal of IIS, Dammam. He praised the activities of Students Fraternity Forum to guide the students by giving chance to understand the teaching and ideals of Mahatma Gandhi by conducting the essay contest on Gandhi. And he promised his full support for the activities of Forum aims the growth and development of the students in curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular fields. The function was presided over by Moosakutty, Saudi Zonal Patron, Students Fraternity Forum.

He described the activities of Students Fraternity in details in his presidential address. Students Fraternity is conducting many programmes for students such as; career guidance, pavithram (Programme designed for building confidence in students for facing examination), arts festivals and sports meets, etc he said. And it is very proud to say that, Students

Fraternity did a remarkable service for the Hajj pilgrims this year, he added. He also pointed that, there is no much efforts done from our side to know the culture of Saudi Arabia yet, as we are living here more effort is required to understand this great nations culture then only possible the cultural exchange between nations.

Nazeeb Pathanapuram, the program convener welcomed in the event.

Thirunavakarasu, Managing committee chairman, IIS Dammam, Shalin Arshad, Academic

Counselor, Alumna of international School Dammam, Sumayya Arif, Head Mistress, Dunes

International School Dammam, Ajithkumar, Vice Principal, Sunshine International School

Dammam, PAM Haris, Chairman, Media Forum Dammam, Mohamed Amir, India Fraternity

Forum Urdu chapter, Mohamed Faisal, India Fraternity Forum Tamil Chapter, Haneef Jokatte, India Fraternity Forum Karnataka, Noushad Thazhawa, Convener, Kollam Paithrikam were felicitated.

Rajkumar, Administration Manager, Dossary Hospital, Mr. Saleem Chathannoor

(OICC), Shareef, General Manager KLF, Dr. Rajan Chopra, Alhassa were present.

Essay Contest Prizes winners

Senior:

1. Malavika Surendran (IIS Dammam)

2. Manu Suresh (Modern international School Alhassa)

3. Jatin Chopra (Modern international School Alhassa)

Junior:

1. Ruby Ajith (Sunshine International School Dammam)

2. Merin Mary Jose (IIS Dammam)

3. Akshaya Dheer (Sunshine International School Dammam)

Sub-junior

1. Foustina Babu (Al Khozama international School Dammam)

2. Lamis Khalid Mohamed (IIS Khafji)

3. Santina Shaji (IIS Dammam)

The prizes were distributed by Mr. Russel, Manager Dadabhai Travels Alkhobar and Mr. Noushad

Kollam, Business development Manager Shifa Alkhobar polyclinic for 1st and 2nd places respectively.

Cultural events started at 5:30 with the Qira’ath of Ms. Fathima Burhana. It was colorful with variety of

performance by students such as; Oppana, Daffu muttu, Arabian traditional dance, Gazal, variety of

songs, Karate demo, etc. Performance of Aysha Hussain, Kalayani Rajkumar, Laxmi Rajkumar,

Sulathana Rafi, Irfan Majeed, Marwa Sharafudheen, Asna, Mohamed Husssain, and Swalih Noushad were gained the clap of audience very much. And the student’s Karate demo arranged by Mr. Sensi Nazar was one of the attractive items in the fest. Trophies and certificates were given to all who participated in the cultural events.

Another attractive item of the fest was the drawing exhibition with the pictures drawn by students.

Hundreds of pictures were exhibited and Mstr. Althaf Musthafa (IIS Dammam) won the best picture award selected through the audience voting.

Dadabhai Travels, Shifa Alkhobar Polyclinic, Al Subayed Trading (KLF), Malila Trading (Hi tea),

Salamatak hospital, Lulu Hypermarket, Nesto Hypermarket, Grandmart Hyper, Global Express cargo,

ABC Cargo, Joy Alukkas jwellery, Dhana Juice, Silk Centre, Mohamed Dossary Hospital, Xpress Money, were the main sponsors.

Mr. Abdul Ali Kalathingal and Ms. Milana Nourin were the emcees. Abdul Latheef Karunagappally,

Abdul Rasheed Cheruvadi, Ameen Master, Abdul Latheef Alanalloor, Zubair Narath, Shareef Kottayam,

Shajahan Ayyaril, Hussain Kollam, Abdul Salam Salam Master, Nameer Chervadi, Ameer Ali were

controlled the program. Mstr. Mohamed Hussain Noushad, President, Students Fraternity Forum

Dammam proposed vote of thanks.