ASSP Kuwait organizes ‘family fun day 2020’ for a cause

Event promotes ‘limit single use plastic to save environment’

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 15: American Society of Safety Professional-Kuwait Chapter organized Family Fun Day on Jan 24 at Wafra Chalet to bring in a fun Àlled ambience and Moy to the members and their families.

This was the consecutive fourth year of the event and this time it was organized with a theme “Funday With Limiting Single-Use Plastic – Save Environment”. Around 250 members along with their family members enthusiastically participated and had great fun on the day.

ASSP Kuwait Chapter has adopted 3R’s i.e. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle method to limit the single-use plastic at the fun day.

Members and families were instructed not to bring any kind of single used plastic at the venue.

Paper plates, glass and wooden spoon were used in place of single use plastic plates, glass and spoon.

Reliance Worldwide Catering Company also brought their crockery for serving and eating food.

Instead of single use water bottle, a dispenser and water cans were provided. These water cans were sent back to manufacturing company for reuse.

For disposal of food waste Mute bags and bio degradable bags were used.

The event banner was made up of

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cloth instead of Áe[ materials. While selecting the gifts, plastic items were avoided and gifts were warped using paper.

The fun day out was kicked off with the inaugural speech by ASSP Kuwait Chapter President Sunil Sadanandan, who briefed on the fun day out Theme and its necessity. He said that these type of outdoor events generates huge amount of single use plastics usage and it is quite alarming as some of them are not properly disposed and pose a threat to the environment. The event was a message to all in Kuwait on how such social gathering event can be done by limiting single use plastics.

The Àrst half of the day was Àlled with sporting events like football, fun games such as lemon spoon race, running for kids, ladies, and games for couples etc. For entertaining kids’ air inÁatable balloon slide, face painting, balloon twisting by clown and magic show was arranged.

Reliance Worldwide who is prominent service provider in oil sector and supporter of Chapter activities provided the catering services for the entire day with live kitchen stations.

The post lunch session comprised tug of war, games e[clusively for females and ASSP members. The members and families were well entertained by melodious songs with music throughout the event.

During the concluding ceremony Mazarudhin Shaikh Secretary, thanked the Chapter staff, Advisory and E[ecutive Committee members. He e[tended special thanks to Eng Fadhel Al Ali, Chairman ASSP Kuwait Chapter for his inspiration, encouragement and consistent support for bringing the outdoor programs for the beneÀt of chapter members and consequent success of the Kuwait Chapter.

The funday 2020 was organised by the outreach committee lead by Balvant Singh, head, outreach committee, ShaÀ Haider, Dy Head and members of Outreach Committee. The arrangement was e[ceptionally done to match the theme of the event.

The concluding ceremony featured the cake cutting ceremony, lucky draw prizes and gifts for the winners and participants. The core committee members of ASSP Kuwait Chapter distributed the prizes and the gifts.

The day was concluded with vote of thanks delivered by Jahid Thakor, vicepresident of ASSP Kuwait Chapter. He specially thanked all families of ASSP members for allowing members to volunteer their service to the society by sacriÀcing their family time.

The program concluded with a special gift to all members by ASSP Kuwait Chapter. For more details visit kuwait.assp.org