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Adliya wins the District’s PR & Rotary Image Shield!

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The Rotary Club of Adliya is thrilled to have won the prestigious Rotary District 2450 Public Relations & Rotary Image Shield for 2010/2011. Club member and Assistant Governor Dr. Ali Follad picked up the shield on behalf of the Club at the recently concluded District Conference in Luxor in Egypt.

“We are thrilled to have received this deserved award for our club. We are the uncontested pioneers in the region – as the shield attests – in adopting and adapting new and old media in order to propagate the messages of Rotary within the community,” RCA President Mahmood Al-Yousif commented, “we didn’t stop just at creating an excellent website, but made sure that all other aspects of social media are well integrated within the PR portfolio as well as introduced virtual meetings by virtue of the availability of audio and video podcasts to allow anyone interested to listen in to our meetings in a very transparent and professional manner. We are confident that the Club will build on this award in the coming years for the benefit of our members and the community,” President Al-Yousif concluded.

The Club wishes to thank all members of the press for their professionalism in covering Club events and hope that they will continue to be the effective partner in allowing the Club to communicate its messages to the community at large.

Ethnomusicology

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On Monday 11 April 2011, the Rotary Club of Adliya was thrilled to welcome Mr. Hasan Hujairi who talked about his doctoral thesis in Ethnomusicology and his experience to pursuing studies in Bahrain, Japan and lately the United Kingdom.

Hasan Hujairi feels that making music is similar to writing a story; his tale is one with many chapters. He has studied classical guitar in Bahrain and the United States, and learned the floating-bridge oud under Iraqi virtuoso Saad Mahmoud Jawad. A coveted scholarship from the Japanese government led him to delve into the Maritime History of the Gulf, while interning at Tokyo recording studios and playing at spots like the Imperial Hotel and NHK Broadcasting Museum. Hasan was a participant in the 2010 Red Bull Music Academy and is currently a PhD student at the University of Exeter in the field of Ethnomusicology. His last album (‘Manama and Other Spices’) incorporates field recordings made on cassette recorders – spiced up with tube effects. Hasan is an active sound artist and has presented some of his works in art spaces in Bahrain and the UK.

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It’s all about Cricket!

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The arrangements have all been made and the Rotary Club of Adliya will be thrilled to receive more than 200 Cricketers, team officials, umpires and a crowd of Cricket fanatics on Tuesday the 15th of February for the RCA Charity Cricket Tournament 2011.

Ten teams will slug it out then. Seven men’s teams and two ladies teams and one under-19s will take to the pitch from 8am with ladies’ finals expected to take place at 3pm on the same day; while the gents’ final will be at approximately 4pm. Winners will receive trophies and and medals generously sponsored of Alpha Fire Services.

Food will be provided by BMMI’s Great Deli Company’s to the players. Some of the same delicious sandwiches will be available for sale at the venue, other food vendors are expected to be present too, so hopefully no one will go hungry while enjoying the gentle game of Cricket.

Our thanks and gratitude go to all the supporters and sponsors of this event. The money raised will go directly to supporting our community. The complete list of supporters and sponsors will be published in a specially designed Memento Booklet, thanks to Printech. You can also click here to view them online.

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Rotary Club of Adliya organises Blood Donation Drive

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Rotarian Julian Clarke-Jervoise (right) awaiting his turn to donate blood. Other Rotarians seen on other beds in the process of donating blood.

Members and friends of the Rotary Club of Adliya got together this afternoon to give blood at the Central Blood Bank at the Salmaniya Medical Complex. A lot of whom also pledged to be regular donors and donate also whenever called upon by the community; thus, exemplifying the values held very dear by Rotarians worldwide: truthfulness, fairness, goodwill and ensuring that benefit encompasses all.

President Mahmood Al-Yousif led ten Rotarians of the Rotary Club of Adliya and five guests in giving blood, “in a country of 1.2 million inhabitants a lot of whom are unfortunate enough to suffer from diseases like thalassemia, sickle-cell anemia and diabetes and only under 20,000 regular donors, this disparity must be addressed” President Al-Yousif commented. “The Rotary Club of Adliya recognises its social responsibility and continuously looks for ways to benefit our community, so when the suggestion to donate blood was made by Rotarian Wesam Baqer, himself a regular donor, the Club jumped at the chance. Gauging from the response of both members and guests after they have given blood, and their determination to become regular donors, I think the Club has once again chosen a good cause and are thrilled to be of service to this great country and its people” President Al-Yousif concluded.

Present at the Donation Drive were President Mahmood Al-Yousif, PDG Nijad Alatassi, PP Khalid Tabbara, PP Hasan Albalooshi, IP Laith Shukayr, Rotarians Dr. Faiza Ghabrial, Hameed Karimi, Wesam Baqer, Zoher Taherbhai and Julain Clark-Jervoise. Guests present were Hasan Haider, Reem Ahmadi, Eman Haider, Mona Jamsheer, Nadia Muijrers – daughter of PP Peter Muijrers and Mrs. Frances Irvine (president’s wife) all guests of P. Mahmood Al-Yousif, Bader Mohammed guest of R. Hameed Karimi and Abdulla, son of PP Hasan Albalooshi.

The Club recognises PDG Nijad Alatassi for his continued generosity by designing and printing the event’s roll-up banner.

Rotary Adliya Sponsors Bahraini Students to Leadership Conference

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Ms. Eman Mansoor Oun, Ms. Tahera Shakeeb and Mr. Mohammed Al-Aradi – all of whom are Business students at the Bahrain Polytechnic – attended an important leadership and skills building conference in November 2010 in Dubai, thanks to the Rotary Club of Adliya funding their trip and expenses. All three students were the featured speaking guests at the Rotary Club of Adliya meeting held on 17th January, in which they shared their experience of participation with Rotarians and guests.

“The Rotary Club of Adliya deeply believes in empowering the youth of Bahrain to reach their potential,” Mahmood Al-Yousif, the President of the Rotary Club of Adliya said, “we find that the Youth Leadership Summit and the Talent Conference which took place recently in Dubai are perfect vehicles for that development. Therefore, we opted to sponsor three bright and committed young individuals to attend the event and had every confidence that they would benefit from the experience. In fact, judging by the reports we received back from them, their attendance already bore fruit in not only winning the coveted ‘Best Delegation’ award, but more importantly, they have adapted what they learnt and ‘paid it forward’ by helping various causes in the Kingdom.”

The Youth Leadership Summit partnered with Knowledge Village in Dubai where the event took place. The Summit provides an avenue for global, regional and national business leaders from different organizations to converse with proactive youth. About 300 youth attended and took part in a number of workshops and panel discussions, in addition various talks and presentations. Participants were from the four Gulf States of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and UAE.

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Eminent dignitaries and national and international media houses also attended, all of whom sought to bridge the gap on a multitude of issues like Human Capital Development, CSR and Environmental Sustainability as well as harnessing innovation and youth empowerment.