Dh100,000 each for expat trio in raffle draw
Mahzooz winners outline plans to surprise families, reward selves, charity
A36-year old Filipina airport operations team leader, a Pakistani migrant worker, and an Uzbek food blogger welcomed the festive season with a big cheer as each of them are now Dh100,000 richer after winning recently in Mahzooz’s 108th Super Saturday draw.
Rowena, a Filipina who has been living in the UAE for the past 10 years, got the biggest surprise of her life on Christmas Eve when she got a call from a friend informing her that her name was announced during the draw. After checking the results on the website and confirming she really won, Rowena said she started crying and couldn’t sleep the entire night. She called her mother to share the good news.
Rowena said she has no specific plan yet on what to do with her windfall but “would certainly donate a portion of her winnings to charity and save the rest for her future and family.”
For Pakistani expat, Khawar, 36, the Dh100,000 prize money will go towards start a garments business in his home country and to buy himself a new smartphone.
Khawar arrived in Dubai six years ago works and works in a physically demanding job – loading and offloading various merchandise for a private company. He said the prize money is a big blessing that came at the right time.
Meanwhile, Kirill, a 45-year old Uzbek airline employee and food blogger, plans to buy a new car. He was in the company of his friends, hanging out in the park when he received the congratulatory email from Mahzooz.
Mahzooz’s 108th Super Saturday draw also saw 22 winners sharing the secondtier prize of Dh1 million, bagging bagging Dh45,454 each after matching four out of five winning numbers.