NAFO holds awards ceremony

NAFO Kuwait conducted a glamorous ceremony on February 1 to honor meritorious and outgoing students of NAFO family. The function was held at Indian Community Senior School, Salmiya. Renowned career guide Prof Dr Venkitaraman was the chief guest. The ceremony started with a prayer song by Anamika Anilkumar, Anupama Dileepkumar, Aswathy Vijayakrishnan, Gopika Menon, Muktha Gopakumar, Sruthi Uday and Vrichika V Nair, members of NAFO Symphony which was composed by Sreela Raviprasad and Sreeranjini Ajay, NAFO Ladies Wing Coordinators.

NAFO General Secretary, Murali S Nair welcomed the gathering followed by Dr Srikumar’s presidential address. The pro- gram started by honoring Dr Venkitaraman with a ‘ponnada’ and NAFO memento. Program convener Vijaykrishnan introduced Dr Venkitaraman by reading his brief profile. NAFO ‘Gurukulam,’ an innovative value-added educational scheme for the benefit of younger children and designed by the NAFO Ladies Wing was inaugurated by Dr Venkitaraman by releasing the scheme syllabus. NAFO Ladies Wing coordinator Sreekala Dileepkumar briefly elaborated on the benefits and merits of the scheme.

NAFO meritorious students of Class X, Rathan Pradeep Kumar and Navaneethakrishnan Unnikrishnan of NAFO family were honored with NAFO medals gifts and appreciation certificates. NAFO outgoing students Ajith Aravind, Akhil Dilip Kumar Nambiar, Anjali Rajiv Menon, Anushka Anil, Archana Rajendran, Adhira Anilkumar Pillai, Meenakshy Suresh, Pooja Vinay Menon, Reshmi Ramesh Kumar, Rohan Mahesh, Sandeep Dileep, Sharat Menon, Sheethal Rajiv Menon and Siddharth Menon were also honored with NAFO gold medals and appreciation certificates and Malavika Menon (Class X) with appreciation certificate and NAFO medal by the invited guests, officials and senior members of NAFO family.

While speaking on the occasion, Dr Venkitaraman highly commented on NAFO’s dedicated and committed activities aiming at the betterment of the society. He specifically praised NAFO Ladies Wing for initiating the ‘Gurukulam’ scheme. He thanked NAFO for facilitating the opportunity for him to visit and fruitfully interact with students and parents of Indian community in Kuwait. While felicitating the outgoing students, Vijay Karayil (NAFO Patron), Dr Prasad Nair (NAFO Advisory Board), Dr Binumon (Principal, ICSK, Salmiya), BS Pillai (former NAFO president), and Smitha Sashikumar (Chief Coordinator-Ladies Wing) reminded them of their future challenges, duties and responsibilities and wished all of them a bright and prosperous future. Program committee co-convener, Krishnan K Pillai congratulated the students and proposed a vote of thanks. He inspired the audience and students by making some Vedic references.