Ahmadi governorate to hold Ramadan Quran competition
Female competitors to participate for 1st time
KUWAIT CITY, May 28: For the third consecutive year, Ahmadi Governorate will organize Ramadan Quran Memorization and Recitation Competition titled “Ahmadi is different during the holy month” under the auspices of Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Fawaz Khalid Al-Hamad AlSabah.
Director of Government Relations in Ahmadi Governorate and coordinator general of the competition Hamid Al-Ibrahim said the competitions will commence on the 16th of Ramadan in five mosques at various locations.
He declared astonishing achievements of the two previous editions has boosted morale of the Governor and officials of Mosques Affairs Sector in the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, as well as Ahmadi Mosques Affairs Sector.
He said female competitors will participate in the program this year based on the directives
of Sheikh Fawaz.
Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) on Saturday launched an ‘iftar’ (Muslim evening meal in Ramadan) campaign and a ‘kiswat eid’ (feast clothing) campaign in Lebanon.
The first project targets distributing 80,000 iftar meals throughout the holy month of Ramadan at a daily rate of 2,750 meals, said coordinator of the relief works of the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) Youssef Botrous.
Beneficiaries from this annual custom of the KRCS include Syrian and Palestinian refugees in needy Lebanese families in the western city of Tripoli, the southern city of Sidon and the eastern Beqaa Valley, he told KUNA here.
The clothing initiative, being carried out in collaboration with LRC, focuses on Syrian refugee families across Lebanon, he went on.
Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, KRCS has launched several food and medical aid projects that benefitted scores of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and other countries in the region.