Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — The Memon Welfare Society (MWS), which has been serving the community since the last 11 years under banner of MASA, hosted an event titled “Stranger of yesterday, friends of today and relatives of tomorrow” “Kal Ke Anjane Aaj Ke Dost aur Ane Wali Kal Ke Rishtedar” at Lasani (Spinzer) Restaurant recently.
More than 400 guests, who came from Jeddah, Makkah, Taif and Madinah, attended. Two separate premises, for ladies in Lasani Golden Ball Room and for gents in Garden lounge, were arranged for male and female guests. In the male section, the event commenced with recitation of verses from Holy Qur’an by a Abdul Rahman Khimani. Naat Sharif was presented by Ahmed Irfan.
Irfan Haji Ahmed Kolsawala, president MWS, welcomed the guests and gave a brief introduction of the event. Tayyab Moosani, secretary general, presented a brief report of the group’s welfare activities.
He said that businessmen, doctors, engineers, chartered accountants and other people of various professions belong to our community and are present in today’s event. He also presented the history and activities of MWS over the period of last 10 years.
Later on a Quiz Show based on questions on history and activities was held and gifts were given to guests who answered the questions correctly. Almost all guests enjoyed participating in the Quiz Show.
Moosani thanked all attendees in general and sponsors of the event in particular. He also thanked all office bearers, patrons and members of event committee and managing board for working hard to make the event great success.
Moosani also expressed gratitude to various esteemed entities of Jeddah including M/s Al Abeer Group of Hospitals, M/s Bay La Sun Hotel & Marina from King Abdullah Economic City and M/s Superior Tracks Travel and Tourism (Zeeyarah) for their cooperation and participation in the event. Fazal Kamal Makki and Younus Habib sponsored all gifts distributed during Quiz Show, while Ghandour distributed their products among the guests.
Seniors and well know dignitaries of local community Mohammed Chapra, Mohammed Badi, Fouad Chapra, Faisal Luqman, Fayyaz Abdul Kader, Dr. Iqbal Lohya, Dr. Farooq Namori from Makkah and Dr. Mohammed Younus, eye specialist from Makkah, attended the event.
Shoaib Sikander, Younus Habib, Ahmed Kamal Makki, Wasim Tai, Jawaid Ashraf Kherani, Ismail Menda, Siraj Adamjee and Sadiq Sorathia contributed their untiring efforts to make the event a great success.
A great outcome of the family event was achieved in ladies section. The wives of office bearers welcomed the guests and advised them one by one to take the advantage of the unique gathering specially in finding matches for their grown up children. Several families got in touch with each other for further relationship in future.
The event concluded in a very pleasant and friendly atmosphere with the vote of thanks by the vice president.
