World Peace:
KKMA Drawing Contest
Award Ceremony
Jubilant United Indian School won KKMA-Tiffany Trophy
Kuwait:
Kuwait Kerala Muslim Association
(KKMA), the largest organization of Indian nationals in Kuwait
concluded its 2009 World Peace KKMA-Tiffany drawing contest with a
colorful award ceremony.
The contest was organized under the
kind patronage of His Excellency Mr. Ajai Malhotra, the Ambassador
of India to Kuwait.
A total of 56 best performers
and highest scoring schools have been conferred with trophies and
certificates in a spectacular evening program which was attended by
the school children, teachers, parents and general public.
Winners were
chosen based on a grading matrix and
announced in three categories of Excellent, Merit and Recognition
awards from each categories respectively.
United Indian School of Kuwait bagged the KKMA-Tiffany Winners
Trophy for winning the highest number of points in the contest by
winning
11 prizes out of total 56 prizes and earning 43 points.
The Indian Educational School (IES) emerged
as the runner up by achieving seven with 21 points, whereas the
Carmel School of Kuwait became 3rd in the row with 5 winners and 16
points.
Children from 18 Indian schools in Kuwait participated in this
contest. A total number
exceeding 3000 entries were received during the first phase of the
contest held in September-October 2009.
Of which 1000 finalists were selected and invited for an
on-the-spot final contest on a theme related to water.
Sageer
Trikarpur, the chairman of KKMA in his introductory speech explained
that the contest was organized to promote a culture of nonviolence
and peace by raising awareness among young children about these
concepts. He also gave
a brief account of KKMA activities and programs implemented for the
benefit of Indian community in Kuwait.
The
Consular for Community Affairs at the Indian Embassy in Kuwait K.
Narsing Rao inaugurated the event and presented the Champions Trophy
to United Indian School. He
congratulated winners and commended KKMA effort for inculcating
values of life in young generation.
Rao also applauded KKMA’s newly launched “Model NRI Project”
which aims to create awareness about the situation of NRIs and to
address their problem in real earnest by changing their lifestyles.
With regard to the embassy services, Rao requested general
public to avail the services offered by the revamped Legal Clinic
Services at the Indian Workers Welfare Center.
Mr. K. Shriniwas, the general
manager of Iffco, the guest of honor at the award ceremony presented
1st Runner Up trophy to Indian Educational School. Shriniwas
received a felicitation memento from K.N. Rao as an appreciation for
being the main sponsor of the event.
Mr. T.A.
Ramesh, general manager of Gulf Mart presented 2nd Runner Up trophy
to Carmel School Kuwait. He congratulated the winners and commended
the efficient organizing of the event.
The
Indian Community School and the Kuwait Indian School received
appreciation memento from the organizers for their continuous
support to KKMA drawing contests in consecutive years.
S. Ilango, principal of ICSK Amman branch and Mrs. Kalyani
Mukherji, principal of Kuwait Indian School received the awards
respectively for each school.
Artist
Srinivasan received a felicitation memento from A.P Salam, Working
President of KKMA and Artist M.V John received a felicitation
memento from Ali Matara, CFO of KKMA for their support in organizing
the contest.
The
event was made colorful by oppanna dance program performed by the
IMLA Kids Group choreographed and directed by IMLA, the ladies wing
of KKMA. Singing
Artists from Breeze Band Faisal and Raafi as well as Vinay, a Gulf
Voice winner performed the popular patriotic songs.
The
program also witnessed award distribution program for the winners of
Mehandi contest held on the Eid day last year.
The award was presented by
by IMLA
President Mrs. Arifa Abdul Fatah and General Secretary Mrs. Namira
Hisham.
N.A.Muneer, KKMA president along with leaders of KKMA Ibrahim
Kunnil, Sayed Rafiq, Shabeer Mandoli, Basheer K, K.C Rafik, Hamza
Payannur and B.M Iqbal presented the trophy, certificates and
special gifts for the winners.
The
Association thanked all class teachers and the art/drawing teachers
of your school for their kind support without which we could not
have received such an immense response.
World Peace: KKMA-Tiffany
Drawing Contest 2009
Winners Announced
Kuwait – 31 January 2010:
The Kuwait Kerala Muslim Association (KKMA)
today announced the winners of the
KKMA-Tiffany grand final drawing contest
held for students of Indian schools in Kuwait.
The winners were chosen based on a grading
matrix and announced in three categories of
Excellent, Merit and Recognition awards from each
category respectively.
At a tough contest participated by
1000 final contestants, the United Indian School
bagged the highest number of points by winning 11
awards out of total 56 and thus earning 39 points.
The Indian Educational School (IES) emerged
as the runner up by gaining seven awards with 28
points, whereas the Carmel School of Kuwait became
3rd in the row with 5 winners and 15 points.
The Contest dubbed as ‘World
Peace: KKMA-Tiffany Painting Contest’ was
conducted under the kind patronage of Mr. Ajai
Malhotra, His Excellency the Ambassador of India to
Kuwait for promoting a culture of nonviolence and
peace among young children by raising awareness
about these concepts.
The competition was open to all
students of Indian Schools in Kuwait and divided
into four categories - Primary School (Class 1 to
IV), Upper Primary School (Class V to VII),
Secondary School (Class VIII to Class X), and Senior
Secondary School (Class XI and Class XII).
A press
release from KKMA stated that a total number of 3000
entries were received during the first phase of the
contest held in July-October 2009.
Children’s from 18 Indian schools in Kuwait
participated in the contest.
The contest was
held in two phases.
In Phase 1, each of the entrants was
requested to submit one piece of drawing which
responds to the theme, World Peace.
A judging panel then reviewed all entries and
1000 semi-finalists were selected to advance to
phase two final competitions on 15 January 2010.
All final art works were reviewed
by a judging panel headed by Artist Srinivasan who
commented saying that the KKMA drawing contest was
such a huge success not only because of the plenty
of wonderful works the officials received, but
because of several positive commentaries from the
parents.
Nevertheless, the judges and the officials of
the KKMA opined that the children should be given
more such opportunities to participate in theme
based drawing contests for nurturing their
creativity and imagination as most of the children
tries to copy what they were taught by their art
teachers or recreating previously learned symbol set
that has been memorized.
The list
below shows the details of winners in each category
of award in an alphabetical order and not on any
ranking within each award group.
EXCELLENT AWARD
Category 1: Primary School
(Class I to IV):
GOUTHAM SURESH (Indian Community School
Kuwait – ICSK Amman), GRIFFIN GEORGE PUTHENPURAYIL
(Indian Community School Kuwait - ICSK – Khaitan),
MALAVIKA VIDHUGOPAN (Carmel School Kuwait),
NANDAKRISHNAN MUKUNDAN (Indian Educational School –
IES), SHAWN ANNA SAJAN (United Indian School).
Category 2: Upper Primary (Class IV to VII):
AAWANI
JAYAPRAKASH (Indian
Educational School – IES),
ABITHA
GEORGE THOMAS (Indian Educational School –
IES), GAVIN
GEORGE (Indian Community School Kuwait –
ICSK
Khaitan), LAVANYA LILLY GEORGE (Gulf Indian School),
SIBIL SARA SEN (United Indian School).
Category 3:
Secondary School (Class VIII
to X):
AISWARYA
BALAGOPAL (United Indian School), DIVYA MAHADEVAN
(Indian Educational School – IES),
M H S
GULZAR AHMED (Indian Central School), TESSA SUSAN
JOHN (United Indian School), VIVEK UNNIKRISHNAN
(Indian Community School Kuwait – ICSK
Amman).
Category 4: Senior Secondary School (Class XI and
XII):
None
qualified for Excellent Award in this category.
MERIT AWARD
Category 1: Primary School
(Class I to IV):
AYMAN TANVEER PALOJI (Indian English Academy
School – IEAS), GAYATRI DEVI (United Indian School),
ISRA M.D
SHALIM (Integrated Indian School), MOHAMMED
EMON (Indian Public School), RICHA ABRAHAM (Carmel
School Kuwait).
Category 2: Upper Primary (Class IV to VII):
ADITYA
JAYPAL (Indian
Educational School - IES),
ARJUN
NARAYANAN KUTTY (Indian Community School,
ICSK Senior),
FLENCY THANKACHAN (Indian Community School -
ICSK Khaitan),
HANAN
ABDULLA (Fahaheel
Al Watanieh Indian Private School - FAIPS),
KRUPA ANN
MATHEW (United Indian School), RESHMA ABRAHAM
(Carmel School of Kuwait),
VINAYAK
UNNIKRISHNAN (Indian Community School - ICSK
Amman).
Category 3: Secondary School (Class VIII to X):
FIONA SUNNY
KURIAN (United Indian School), GRESHMA LIZ GEORGE
(Indian Central School), MUHAMMAD MANSAF KHAN (Indian
Community School - ICSK
Senior), PRATYUSH.V (Indian Educational
School (IES),
REHANA
MAHFUZ (Fahaheel
Al Watanieh Indian Private School - FAIPS).
Category 4: Senior Secondary School (Class XI and
XII):
NLUBAINA
WAHID ALI (United Indian School), MARIYAM BEGUM
(United Indian School), RASEL AHMMED (Indian Central
School).
REOGNITION AWARD
Category
1: Primary School (Class I to IV):
ABDUL SALAM
(Integrated Indian School), ABHINAYA SRINIVASAN (Indian
Educational School - IES),
CHETAN RAJESH (Gulf Indian School), JOEL SAJU (India
International School), MALVIKA KRISHNA. K
(Integrated Indian School), MEGHA CHANDRAN (India
International School)MOHAMMED RUSHDI (Integrated
Indian School).
Category 2: Upper Primary (Class IV to VII):
JULIA ROSE PANIKULAM (Gulf Indian School), NADIYA
NUR FAIZA (Jabriya Indian School), NETRA
RADHAKRISHNAN (United Indian School), RANLI
WARANGANA LIYANAGE (Carmel School Kuwait),
SEBASTIYAN AHILAN (Al Rashid Indian School), SHAMID
KHAN SULTAN (Kuwait Indian School), SHAYAN IQBAL
(Kuwait Indian School).
Category 3: Secondary School (Class VIII to X):
AFIA M
PATHAN (United Indian School), GOLDAN NIVETHITHA
(Fahaheel
Al Watanieh Indian Private School - FAIPS),
KAMAR AYMAN
AL YOUNIS (Al Amal Indian School), KEVIN PONNACHAN
(Indian Central School), NEHAL AMIT JAJAL (Fahaheel
Al Watanieh Indian Private School - FAIPS).
Category 4: Senior
Secondary School (Class XI and XII):
IMMANUEL AMRITA RHEMA (Fahaheel Al Watanieh
Indian Private School - FAIPS), SHOBHA SAM
ATTUPURATH (Carmel School Kuwait).
In addition, all finalist
participants will be awarded with qualifying
certificates.
An Award ceremony to honor winners and
participants will be held on 12 February 2010 at
Indian Community School, ICSK Khaitan at 6:00 PM.
Please click here to review the
Winners List
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