Riyadh: Jam’iyyatul Falah holds spectacular summer event

naeem@coastaldigest.com (Nazeer Ahmed)

May 16, 2012

Riyadh, May 16: Jam’iyyatul Falah, Riyadh Unit, organised its biggest event of the year, a spectacular ‘JF Summer Event 2012’ at Al Roshd Resort, Riyadh recently.

The programme began with a recitation of verses from holy Quran by Mohammed Mubeen.

Akhtar Shaikh, President of JF Riyadh welcomed all the guests and Mohammed Mubeen gave a brief introduction about Jami’yyatul Falah.

Akhtar Shaikh briefed the activities of JF back home and Riyadh through, a Power Point presentation. An Islamic Lecture was given by Abdul Waheed (Student of Umm Al Qura University, Makkah) and the topic of lecture was the benefits and utilization of "Sadaqa-E-Jariya".

Delicious dinner with soft drinks, sponsored by NCMS/Sodexho and various fruits sponsored by Mazaq Trading Co. was served during the event.

The outdoor games for children (Football, Running Race, Sack Race, Musical Chair) and for men's (Volley Ball and Tug-of-War) were well organized by Ayaz Ahmed and his team. All Children’s were participated with great enthusiasm & were very delighted. And Abdul Hameed Wenz arranged the games like: "Ring and win" and "Ball in the Bucket" which were really added more attraction to the evening and enjoyed by the participants.

Islamic Quiz Competition was conducted by Mahfooz in coordination with Mohammed Mubeen for men and children. The programme was sponsored by A1 Plastics and Abdul Basheer. Attractive prizes were distributed for all the winners of quiz.

For ladies side, women volunteers of JF conducted Islamic lecture and quiz programme, sports and games etc.

Throughout the event the slides were shown on the screen briefing about the activities of Jam'iyyatul Falah back home and in Riyadh.

The main sponsors for this event were: NCMS/Sodexho, Safa Makkah Poly Clinic, Mariam Trading, Al Jomaih Bottling Plants (Pepsi), Muhaidib Foods, Expeditors Int'l, Magnum, A1 Plastics, Sweet India Food Industries – Hiriadka, WENZ Exhibition, NESTO Hyper Markets, Basateen Foods – MAZOLA, Asha Textiles, Alba Plastics, Bankal Sports Club, Health Water Company, INMA Trading, Pinehill Arabia Food Ltd. (Indomie), Genius Tailor, Shoba Textiles, New Tech Advt. Co., Karishma Textiles, Centro, and some philanthropic individuals respectively contributed to make the event a grand success.

General Secretary Nazeer Ahmed proposed vote of thanks.

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