Kannadiga kids shine in UAE

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June 10, 2014

Dubai, Jun 10: The Kannadigas beamed with pride when Prapti Jayananad Pakkala, Shashwik Divakar Shetty and Shraddha Deviprasad Shetty won the prestigious Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Distinguished Academic Performance.

Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance, gave away the awards to the winners at a scintillating ceremony recently at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

The Award honours individuals who value their commitment and have a proven record of outstanding success in their respective educational field. The award for distinguished academic performance has been designed to recognize academic achievements, talents, skills and leadership abilities across variety of disciplines.

Shashwik Divakar Shetty is the son of Divakar Shetty. A budding multi- talented student, currently studying in Grade9 at The Indian High School Dubai, Shetty achieved remarkable milestone in public speaking, English literature, social work and in the field of cricket.

He is an avid reader winning many accolades in spell bee and quizzing. He was spotted reading when he was as young as four years. He is a Green Crusader, an artist and was head boy for middle school. This young lad has initiated the art of tissue drawing .He left no stone unturned to soar high in cricket. He was sponsored and sent to UK by Young Talents Cricket Association and there he won the “most promising player” award in 2012.

Prapti Jayanand Pakkala, daughter of Jayalaxmi Pakkala and Jayanand Pakkala   currently a Grade 5 student at The Indian High school, Dubai is a promising student who has excelled in academic performance scoring 95% above in all her subjects along with multi-talented curricular and extra-curricular activities . The young girl is environment conscious and she is member of Green Hope and student council. Prapti is a great dancer and singer particularly excelling in classical dance. Prapti is a member of Smile Creations Dance Troupe and Rajarajeshwari Bhajana Mandali.

Shraddha Shetty daughter of Deviprasad   Shetty and Neetha Shetty is currently studying in Grade 12 at Our Own English High School, Sharjah. Shraddha an all -rounder besides scoring 95% above in her academics for the past many years she is a multi-talented girl. Her talents and skills are public speaking throw ball, discus throw and writing articles for newspaper. As an Environmentalist Shraddha has led several campaigns which led the school winning the Green Flag award. Shraddha is the Head girl of her school, a brown belt Dan 2 in Karate and member of UAE Federation of Karate and Taekwondo. In 2012 she was also awarded the Margadarshan Award by Knowledge Resource Development and welfare group, IIT-Delhi.

The three rising Kannadiga stars were felicitated by Sri Dr Vidyavachaspati Vishwa Santhosh Bharathi at the 40th World Bunts get- together held in Abu Dhabi in the presence of Sarvotham Shetty, President of UAE Bunts association and Shankar Shetty, President, Bunts Sangha, Mumbai.

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Media Release
May 14,2020

Dubai: A non-profitable social organization, KSCC is delivering a great service to the community during this pandemic situation.

Karnataka Sports and Cultural Club is a civil organization registered under Community Development Authority (CDA) involved in implementing various UAE government initiatives, blood donation drives, health campaigns, sport events, charity works, awareness programs and much more.

KSCC is currently actively liaising with Dubai government authorities in discharging the needs and requirements of the people in these challenging covid-19 pandemic times. It is also involved the activities such as logistics, coordinating stores, mobilizing isolation centers, equipping quarantine facilities and volunteering services.

During these testing times, KSCC is also facilitating the Guidance to the general public, follow-up up to 122 covid positive cases, counselling the affected, assisting the references and providing the ever-necessary emotional support by setting up a team of 24 reserved persons for call center helplines.

As per the request from DHA (Dubai Health Authority) KSCC has successfully organized the blood donation drive and donated upto 141 units of blood with the help of KSCC members & supporters.

Apart from above, KSCC is also engaged in serving needy by distributing the food provisional kit (Yestahloon) from the very 1st day of lockdown till day by their special task force team under guidelines of CDA, and also taking into consideration the month of Ramadan, team is successfully distributing Iftar food & provision kit with the help of donors.

In the 1st Phase, KSCC covered 2421 beneficiaries by providing 440 provisional food kits, 435 food pack and 529 Iftar kits.

As per the CDA guidelines, club is also engaged in following up the health condition of senior citizens living in UAE.

KSCC special team is also engaged in clearing documentation and formalities related to dead body repatriation until its final procedures and handing over to relatives with help of UAE governments authorities. Total 5 dead bodies are repatriated in their 1st phase of service.

KSCC is also having a center controlled special task team to assist all above activities during the covid-19 pandemic to continue the services to general public.

KSCC thanks all Government authorities, Members in different task team, supporters and Sponsors company MAERSK, MALABAR GOLD & DIAMOND and TAMIL ENTREPRENEUR for their support and also request extend their support to consolidate the above demanding service and deliver our best possible assistance not only because it is the month of Ramadan, but also our responsibility to reach out to the poor and needy, during this fight against Covid-19.

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Media Release
April 16,2020

Dammam: President of Indian Social Forum, Eastern Province Mr.Wasim Rabbani urged immediate intervention of Indian government to help Non Residential Indians who are in trouble due to corona pandemic in Saudi Arabia.

He said in a press rease that expatriate Indians are in concern  as number of corona infected people and  deaths are increasing in danger level.

Hea said, "the Saudi health minister's statement a few days ago indicates that the situation in Saudi needs to be taken more seriously with precautionary methods. There are concerns among expatriates because the number of people infected with the coronavirus and the number of deaths reported in various provinces are increasing at an alarming rate."

"Saudi Government and Health Ministry are taking excellent precautionary measures, however, in the coming days expect to see the number of cases to increase in Saudi Arabia. The Indian government needs to take diplomatic and immediate intervention to ensure the treatment of Indian expatriates considering the number of effected people increasing", He said.

He also urged that the Embassy and the Government of India should ensure qaurantiane faculty for Indian expatriates and arrange special low cost flights to bring back expatriates who would like to return home country.

" Government of India and Indian embassy need to intervene immediately to ensure that the quarantine system is in place for Indian expatriates as the facilities in the rooms where the residents are staying together are very limited. There should also be a mechanism to organize low-cost flight services for expatriates who are ready to go home. The government system should also be able to accommodate the expatriates in special quarantine areas in hometown as soon they arrive in India", he urged.

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Media Release
January 27,2020

Riyadh: On the occasion of 71st Republic Day of India, Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh (KWAR) conducted BLOOD DONATION CAMPAIGN on the 17th Jan 2020 at KING SAUD Universities King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh. 

This is one of KWARs Prestigious Humanitarian EVENT every year, as we are indebted to serve the society for a Great Cause.

The campaign began at 08:30 am with a theme of Republic Day Celebrations and went on till 3:30 pm. Irrespective of Friday being a weekend and holiday people came in good numbers to donate Blood. The Hospital Staff, The Doctors and the Blood Bank Technicians and others at King Khalid University Hospital were more than happy to serve all those who have participated in this campaign.

KWAR Thanks all the Hospital Staff especially Mr. Salman Baqsh for his introduction of KWAR to Blood Bank and all the arrangements for this campaign, without his support this could not been done. Dr. Zafar Mahmoud for his wonderful support during the campaign and Mr. Abdullah Al Saman for his outstanding Hospitality throughout the campaign. KWAR also thanks all the donors who came all the way voluntarily for this Great Humanitarian Cause. As a token of gesture KWAR awarded Certificate of Appreciation to all the participants.

And KWAR would like to thank specially Mr. Nasir, Representative of Blood Helpline Karnataka, who encouraged many donors and made them to actively participate and donate blood for this noble cause.

KWAR’s core activities was on display on the screen, with most of the Committee members were present at the venue to serve the donors. KWAR thanks all the members, the Executive committee and all those who took their valuable time to organize this event successfully and thank all our well-wishers who supported us for the BLOOD DONATION CAMPAIGN. We in KWAR wish every Donor and the participants a healthy life ahead, and we need everyone's active participation in all our Future events.

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