Grand event marks silver jubilee celebration of Jam'iyyatul Falah Dammam

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May 1, 2013

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Dammam, May 1: The silver jubilee celebration of Dammam Unit of Jam’iyyatul Falah attracted a large number of Indian expatriate families and singles mainly from coastal Karnataka. The twilight programme organised at Hala Istirah in Dammam recently brought a festive mood among the crowd.

The celebration of Jam’iyyatul Falah’s silver jubilee event showed up a huge gathering with more than 1200 participants from different provinces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The event gave a wonderful opportunity to bring together the spirit of Mangalore to create an environment of festivity and discover the amazing native atmosphere of Mangalore.

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 (JF). The event had marked the completion of 25 years which reflected the devotion and hard-work in all the members attached with the organisation.

“We feel proud today to be known as the mother of all organizations,” said president of JF Dammam unit Mansour Ali Ahmed in his presidential remarks. “Jam’iyyatul Falah has been an inspiration to many organizations to serve the community through various programmes in different villages and towns. The 25 years of dedication and commitment has influenced the community to understand the importance of education with its slogan ‘Education is the Key to Success’. I thank all the existing organizations for extending their valuable service for the betterment of the community,” he said.

The celebration commenced with recitation of the Holy Quran by Mohammad Ishaq. The evening was filled with fun and frolic, Quran recitation competition for children in the age group of 4 to 13 years. The competition was judged by Mohammad Ishaq, P Abdul Hameed and Mushtaq Ahmed. The programme was compered by Abdul Munaf. A quiz competition for adults and other games for children offered a great reason for the audience to enjoy the fabulous evening, which carried together the spirit and essence of Karnataka.

A felicitation ceremony was held for two senior members for their humble and modest contribution to JF for the last 25 years. A plaque of appreciation was presented to P Abdul Hameed and Shahul Hameed by NRCC Ameer Akhtar Shaikh and executive member of Mangalore Corporation unit Mushtaq Ahmed respectively.

The entire evening was filled with exciting games for boys and adults, organized by Ismail and Siraj. Several games for children were organized by Mohammad Wahid and team. Attractive prizes were presented to all the winners. All prizes were sponsored by the event chairman Mohammad Hussain Araki.

Several kiosks offered 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 tea stall managed by executive members of Dammam unit Hamza Kana, Imran Karkala and Irfan Karkala. The stall offered different types of tea including Dum ki Chai, Masala Chai and Sada Chai, and kept the crowd satisfied with the traditional Indian sweet ‘Jalibee’.

All activities were conducted under Islamic environment and the event had a book stall displaying the publications of Darrusalam. The famous Jumuah magazine, Shanthi Prakashana and Salafi displayed their Islamic books which many purchased to add to their collection.

The mouth-watering Indian cuisine was enjoyed by the crowd in the dinner section, which was managed and organized by Mahmood Saad.

Ismail, Jamaluddin Kudroli and Mansour Ali Ahmed announced the raffle round, and winners for raffle prizes were extremely happy to collect the valuable electronic items. Siraj kept the crowd entertained with spot games. In the women’s section, children were entertained by the marketing team of McDonalds Arabia with innovative games. All the winners were presented with attractive prizes.

The evening witnessed the success of the event and displayed the hard-work of the event’s working committee. Jamaluddin Kudroli proposed a vote of thanks after distribution of prizes and gifts.

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May 2,2020

Dubai: In response to UAE health authorities encourage blood donation campaign Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta - U.A.E, conducted blood donation camps on April 22 at Abu Dhabi Blood Bank Khaldiya and on 23/04/2020 at Blood Transfusion and Research Centre, Sharjah.

The Abu Dhabi camp was inaugurated by Head of Department of Abu Dhabi Blood Bank, On this occasion she gave brief inputs of the benefits and features of blood donation, urged the participants to spread greater awareness about the importance of blood donation and congratulated the AKO members for their selfless social service and wished all the best for their future endeavours.

Abdul Rasheed, President of AKO presided over the function and Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta Vice President Mr. Mohammad Nasir appreciated the effort for organizing this camp and gathering youths to be a part of this noble cause as life is precious on this earth. "Each drop of blood counts much, so kindly take it as personal compassion to help unknown who requires blood with no relatives to help him/her.

In Abu Dhabi 41 and in Sharjah 49 donors participated in this event and donated their blood. It was nice to see cheerful smiling donors doing a great community work.
Blood bank staff and AKO Organizing team enthusiastically arranged the campaign which was witnessed by many members and leaders of various community organization of Karnataka.

Anivasai Kannadigara Okkuta President briefed the participates about the ongoing social work of AKO in this current COVID-19 pandemic grim situation AKO is working on following fields: AKO Members have stepped up to support needy community during the Covid-19 pandemic have gone out of their way to comfort those struggling to deal with the challenging situation.

While thousands of people continue to #StayHome, many are in quarantine, there are those on visit visa and stuck here, others have lost jobs or face salary cuts. AKO in coordination with UAE Embassy and other social organization have been able to ensure basic necessities are fulfilled with food provisions and medical assistance to needy.

Providing counselling to bachelors and families those are on quarantine and isolation.

The organizers thanked everybody especially, UAE Health Authority, Abu Dhabi Blood Bank Khaldiya and Blood Transfusion and Research Centre, Sharjah, Management and staff as well as donors for their time and support for the good cause.

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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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July 6,2020

The Chairman of Intellectual Council Jeddah, Syed Nasir Khurshid, called for a Zoom meeting on 2nd July, 2020 to celebrate the oath taking ceremony of the D K Shiva Kumar who took over as the President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee. Mr Khurshid opened the meeting with a very enthusiastic and sincere note of congratulations to newly appointed president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr. D.K.Shivakumar.

The chief speaker for the evening was Saleem Khaleefa, vice Chairman of the Council, he said, for more than 4 decades, he is monitoring the politics of the Karnataka state very closely and also monitoring the role of crises management DK Shiva Kumar in the last 2 years, whether it is Rajya Sabha election of Mr. Ahmed Patel or managing the MLAs of Madhya Pradesh. He said, he is one of the best leaders of the party and the best leaders use “their brain, their heart, their soul and their guts.” And his leadership is fit in the size of all these characters. Growth is a very powerful word and fundamentally, party growth is the responsibility of the President and he can take a holistic approach to close the gap between and among the party cadres. 

Every effort is to be made to preserve the sense of unity within the party. We need to unite party base while appealing to voters. He should identify on ground challenges and find the mechanism to address them. He further pointed out that a President’s chief responsibility is to bring all the party leaders and office bearers on the same page with a Mission to bring back the congress party into power in the next assembly election. His smart strategies, road map, mechanism, booth management, better connected with the party workers, taking everyone along with him, will be a direction for the presidents of the party in other states to take party into power.

He pronounced his leadership is totally remarkable and has a track record of his very sensible leadership and he also known for his collaborative and crises management leadership style. Engr. Nasir suggested that his first task is to address the formidable challenges faced by the party and bring the Congress members together, on a very single aspect how to win the election. The party backbone and strength is gross-root workers who can play a significant role to take the party in a very strong and popular position in public. He emphasized that unity is the main strategy and ingredient to win the election, because a party divided will hurt, cannot win the election. Planning is everything and a good planning goes a long way, helping to win the election.  

All the members of the Council expressed their views and everyone is very much hopeful that he is the right person to lead the party from top.He has commanded immense respect from party workers, office bearers, all communities, groups, including opposition parties. He is a very experienced, have immense experience and hard-work leader and he is a strategist and knows the art how to motivate the party workers and unite all in a single rope.

Engr. Amjad Ali said, we are very much confident that he will re-structure from bottom to top, panchyat, taluka and district committees will be re-structured and will induct caliber and talented leaders who can understand and realize their responsibilities and accountability as head of the party at their levels with only one point how to win the coming election with thumping majority.

One of key members of the Council, Sajid Shaikh expressed joyfully that every single member of the party have confidence on the leadership of Mr. D.K Shiva Kumar and his appointment to the top position says a lot of nice things about him.  He has shown his great leadership and expert in crises management on many occasion.  The party in Karnataka is in good hands and I am sure he will sort-out all the difference between and among the party leaders and cadres, which has hurt the party in the last election and will bring all on the same page. Congress party and its workers are lucky to have such a passionate and hardworking president who is ready to work day in and day out to bring party in power in 2023 assembly election.

Prominent members of the Council, Engr. Azher Parvaiz, Engr. Abdul Wahid, Hazrat Qadri, Engr. Abdul Ameed, Saleem Khan, and Rafiuddin Kharadi commented, we looking forward his dynamic and result oriented leadership in organizing and re-shaping the party in the state, he will hold all congressmen together with a noble purpose, motivate every party worker to work with dedication so that congress can come back to power with absolute majority and he can count on our absolute support in booth management as well  suggest a few points to be included in the manifestos, running a high  successful voltage campaign highlighting the failure of the BJP government at the Center and at the state, between and among in the NRIs community across the Gulf Countries, including Europe and America. Council will do the value-based politics and will present the image of the Congress party, as the rational political party, with secular and inclusive, where people of all religions, caste, race and gender, feel wanted in the party, as its main ideology.

Syed Nasir Khurshid thanked entire team for attending the meeting he expressed his gratitude towards Vice Chairman of the council Saleem Khaleefa for speaking as chief speaker and giving updates, he said, team members are excited to meet in person with Mr. D.K. Shiva Kumar, when members visit India during their vacation.

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