Families congregate at ‘Jam’iyyatul Falah Coastal Festival 2012’ in Dammam

[email protected] (Ramesh S Bhandari)
May 7, 2012

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Dammam, May 7: The weather condition in the morning had a stormy wind with sand storm and drizzling, but still the volunteers of Jam’iyyatul Falah (Eastern Province) had kept the preparation in full swing for “JF Coastal Festival 2012” by keeping the faith in Almighty God, and with His blessings, the shining evening had extinguished the fear of misfortune and brought back the mood of festival with a very pleasant evening.

As promised by the organizers of JF, the event had given a wonderful opportunity to bring together the spirit of Mangalore to create an environment of Festival. Men, women and children had joined the festival of joy and excitement together with their friends and relatives to discover the amazing native atmosphere of Mangalore. The “JF Coastal Festival 2012” showed up a huge gathering with more than 1800 participants from different provinces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

It was a radiant and enjoyable social event of one of the distinguished society of Mangalore Diaspora arranged by the charitable organization Jam’iyyatul Falah’s (JF) mainly focus on Education, Medical Aid, Social & Health awareness. Jam’iyyatul Falah, a Karnataka State award winner for best NGO and the pioneer in organizing the Family Get Together in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia since 1995. JF also extend scholarships to over 3,000 deserving students each year and distribute free books. Also, provide regular support, help to orphan, poor students, Ambulance and Medical aid to poor patients as well.

“JF Coastal Festival 2012” the 18th annual event of Jam’iyyatul Falah organized jointly by Dammam & Jubail Units, which was recently celebrated at Al-Multaqa Istirah in Dammam 91 Area. It was an evening filled with fun and frolic, Quran recitation competition for children, Quiz competition for Adult and games for Children and Adult with many more fun and excitement. The Event had offered a great reason to enjoy the fabulous evening, which brought together the spirit & essence of Karnataka.

The celebration commenced at 9:30pm with an introductory speech and the Holy Quran recitation by Shabbir Mullah and immediately followed the Qirath competition for children from age group of 4 years to 13 years. The competition was judged by Mohammad Ishaq, Abdul Samad and Mohammad Ismail.

“JF Coastal Festival 2012” was well planned, formulated and organized by the Executive Committee Members of JF Dammam & Jubail Units. The team of event working committee was well managed by the Event Chairman Mohammad Hussain Araki, Event Manager Sharief Karkala, Event PRO Munaf A. U. S, Event Coordinator Farook Kanyana and Event Moderator Mansour Ali Ahmed.

It was then the Quiz Master Kamarudeen’s turn to trigger the evening with ‘Quiz Competition’ session. Kamarudeen, very efficiently and meticulously handled the competition and did a commendable job by keeping the crowd entertained throughout the evening, with the able assistance from Mansour Ali Ahmed and the team. The five teams were participated and all the five teams were formed spontaneously few minutes before the competition and each team had four participants. The tie-breaker round between the two finalists had made the competition most exciting and the prizes for the winners of Quiz Competition were sponsored by Dabur Saudi Arabia.

The entire evening was filled with various fun and exciting games like Volley Ball for bachelors. The games for children was well organized by Mohammad Wahid and his team, which made the children excited to play the different games like running race, Dog and the Bone, Bombing the city, Passing the parcel and In the Pond on the Land, etc. The attractive prizes were presented to all the Winners. All prizes for games played in the evening by adult/children boys and girls were sponsored by Mohammad Hussain Araki.

The kiosk from Pine Hill Arabia Food Ltd., the manufacturer of Indomie, Toya and Popmie brands of noodles has attracted all the children with their sampling of wet and dry noodles. The children enjoyed the taste of delicious flavor of noodles and were also given the gift hampers as complimentary from the biggest instant noodle manufacturer in the Middle East. One more attractive kiosk from Al Jufailah Corporation, the sole distributor of Al-Kabeer Frozen products, the leader in the Middle East Frozen Industry. The product range of Al-Kabeer had pulled the crowd with their appetizing aroma to taste the sample of their new products. The most attractive kiosk of the evening was the Tea Stall managed by the Executive Members of Dammam Unit Hamza Kana, Imran Karkala and Jamal Kudroli. The stall had served different types of Tea including ‘Dum ki Chai’, ‘Masala Chai’ and ‘Sada Chai’ and kept the guests on their toes with the traditional Indian sweet ‘Jalibee’.

All programs and its activities were conducted under Islamic environment and the event had provide a Book Stall by “DARRUSALAM” and the fast moving publications of Darrusalam was put in the exhibition, who was selling the books at 20% discount for the participants in the “JF Coastal Festival 2012”. Also Shanthi Prakashana has displayed their Islamic books in Kannada language and many had purchased to add in their book collections.

The food court at the event had squeezed and jammed the crowd to taste the scrumptious Dinner catered by the famous Indian Restaurant “Grill Garden” of Al-Khobar. The mouth-watering Indian cuisine creates a center of attention to the crowd and enjoyed the yummy and delightful taste.

General Secretary Mansour Ali Ahmed had diverted the crowd by announcing the commencement of 16 Raffle Prize Round, which was drawn after every 10 minutes which had thrilled the crowd and the winning excitement in every person had made the Raffle Round ecstatic. The winners for Raffle Prizes were extremely happy to collect the valuable electronic items. The Raffle Prizes was sponsored by Aleem Hafeez. The crowd was eager and anxious to try their last chance of winning the prize. The Event had a Mega Prize of 32” LCD TV sponsored by IGC Jubail. The most fascinating prize of the evening was its Super Mega Prize of 32” DAEWOO LED TV, Fully Automatic DAEWOO Washing Machine and 290Ltrs Double Door DAEWOO Refrigerator, which was exclusively sponsored by Abdul Mohsin Al-Abdul Mohsin Al-Swailem Est.

At the women’s section, a group of girls below 10 years old were entertained by the marketing team of Mcdonalds Arabia with innovative fun and games. Children were cherished and enjoyed the fun organized by Mcdonalds Arabia. A special program of Islamic lecture had enlightened most of the women present at the venue. The women’s organizing committee had skillfully managed the program and brilliantly implemented the games for adult and children and successfully accomplished the task provided to each volunteers. All the winners were presented with attractive prizes.

The mega event of Jam’iyattul Falah “JF Coastal Festival 2012” was exclusively sponsored by “Gulf Co-operation Symbols Contracting Co. Ltd” and “NADA (Al-Othman Agri. Production and Processing 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.

Mansour Ali Ahmed proposed vote of thanks immediately after announcing the Winner of Super Mega Prizes.


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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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On Friday, February 7, 2020 Tulu Koota Kuwait under the leadership of Dynamic President Ramesh S Bhandary and coordination of Sports Secretary Roshan Quadras  held its annual picnic at Mishref Garden, Kuwait.  Although slight drizzling on the   previous night had caused great concern amongst committee members , yet the  windy and dusty weather did not lessen the enthusiasm and excitement of Tulu Koota Kuwait members.  Over 1000 members enjoyed the fun filled day.

MC of the occasion Mr. Manoj Shetty & Ms. Priya Devadiga welcomed the audience and Chief guests for the event Dr Jeshna Rajan- Badr Al Samaa Clinic, Dr. S.M.Hyther Ali- Chairman of TVS Hyder Group, Mr. John Simon- Group Manager for Corporate Sales and Event Marketing ,  Al Mulla Exchange, Mr Pradeep, owner of Geetherb medicine and Mr. Lokesh & Team from NH Assets.  The program kicked off with Kuwait & Indian National anthem. The guests in their address to audience, praised Tulu Koota Kuwait unwavering efforts to unite people through language, and also the solid philanthropy and charity work being carried by the association was applauded. The presidents  of different South Canara  association in Kuwait were also amongst invited dignitaries for the event, and were welcomed with flower bouquet. This was followed by the release of “ Tulu Nada Jathre flyer”.

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The act beautifully conveyed the message of sustainability, and climate change and raised awareness on how to fight it, how to live green.  The traditional inaugural of the sports event was done by breaking of coconut by Sports Secretary Mr. Roshan Quadras.  TKK First Lady Mrs Anitha Ramesh Bhandary led the sports march holding the traditional torch followed by the  Go Green Global team holding different country flags with plant pots, followed by President, committee members and Sponsors of TKK. The president officially inaugurated the Sports Event by officially lighting the Sports Lamp.

After the inauguration ceremony, the members and kids actively participated in day long sports games and activities meticulously planned out by the Sports committee  for different age groups.  Passing the parcel, Veggies collection, ball bucket, veg shopping , macroni race, hockey, kutti donne, sack race, lagori,  breaking the pot , tyre race, slow cycling, water ballon race, musical chair , kabbadi, volley ball, throw  ball , tug of war, housie housie, kept the members and their families  engaged and entertained. The winners for the competitions were awarded with trophies towards the end of the exciting day.

Delicious and authentic Mangalorean lunch for the event was served by Oriental Restaurant Kuwait.  Sounds and lights support for the event was provided by Anand, while the beautiful moments were captured in camera by Mr.Blen Dsouza and Mr.Rajesh Devadiga

Tulu Koota Kuwait takes this opportunity to thank its committee members, members and volunteers for their dedicated efforts and team spirit and active participation that eventually lead to the huge success of Family Picnic 2020. The Event Sponsors were Al Ahleia Insurance Company SAKP, Al Mulla Exchange, Khain Properties Udupi, Badr Al-Samaa Clinic, TVS Hyder Group and Geetherb.

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The Opening ceremony took place on AL-Mas Restaurant in Riyadh. The trophy launching as well as Jersey launching took place at the same event. Guests from various companies including SAQCO were present.

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