Fantasy World hosts excellence in School Sports Awards

Event promotes physical fitness among children

KUWAIT CITY, Nov 27: It was an award ceremony very much like any other grad award function, the only difference was that the trophy receivers were kids, instead of their corporate co-workers were kids, parents and teachers from their respective schools who were proudly clapping and cheering them.The Awards took place in Crown Plaza’s magnificent Al Andalus Ball Room. The Award function was to recognize students from various schools who excelled in various sports activities.

Fantasy World sponsored this award ceremony along with City pages to promote students to take part in sports and believes in the welfare of kids knowing that physical fitness eventually leads to mental fitness. By awarding them for their sporting excellence, Fantasy World hopes to raise healthy competition amongst kids seeing them move away from sedentary pastimes and enjoying more in physical activities. The Excellence in School Sports Awards acknowledged those schools that encourage kids to take part in sports and promote the importance of physical health.

Such encouragement is the biggest and best platform for kids to excel in sports and live an active, healthy life. Harvey Dulku the retail Director of Fantasy World said that he is proud to bring in the Excellence in School Sports Awards and thanked those parents who continue to support their kids by setting examples and reinforcing the benefits of physical exercise. Welfare The number of obese people in the world total approximately 2.1 billion, which makes up about 30% of the total population. The worldwide obesity rate has tripled since 1975 and is a big concern, Fantasy World promotes and believes in supporting any sort of welfare of Kids. Physical fitness and eating habits

all can affect the well-being in children. FantasyWorld hopes to get the children out playing and consequently the fitness and wellbeing will follow.

Four Schools that were chosen and Awarded for their excellent contribution in promoting their students in taking up sports activities (in alphabetic order) were – Dasman Bilingual School,

GHARS Bilingual School, Gulf English School & New English School.

Another co-sponsor of the Awards, Crowne Plaza, shared the vision of positivity and health, a culture they strive to promote and achieve at their luxury Kuwait hotel. A total of twentyfour nominated students received the awards for their excellence in various

sports activities and admirable attributes like the value of discipline, teamwork and commitment.

Taking about the award function Burhan Abdul Malik, from the Marketing Team of Fantasy World stated, “this is just the beginning, we hope to see more schools participating in next year’s Awards resulting in a bigger

and better competition amongst children. This would mean more schools promoting sports activities and more children getting involved in sports and therefore physical activities and physical fitness. A healthy Future and a healthy Kuwait. Fantasy World truly believes and lives by its motto, Kids deserve the Best!”.

Zain and Floward officials at Zain’s Innovation Center (ZINC).