Cool Campaign’ helps labourers beat the heat
The organisers of a ‘Cool Campaign’ offering relief to labourers have termed the exercise “extremely successful”.
The campaign started as a small initiative by Qatar Living and iloveqatar (ILQ) volunteer groups, but quickly garnered the support of some of the biggest businesses in Qatar.
“More than 10,000 items were distributed to labourers working under the intense desert heat across the country on Saturday. The look on their faces was priceless,” an official told Gulf Times yesterday.
Out of the current 1.6mn population in Qatar, an estimated 1mn are unskilled labourers, mostly from Asia.
“We have been absolutely thrilled with the amount of support extended to us by volunteers of Qatar Living, ILQ and organisations such as AFC Asian Cup 2011, Vodafone Qatar, Sigma Paints Qatar, Gems Advertising, Qatar Animal Welfare Society, Qatar National Imports & Exports,” the official said.
The organisations, according to him, were instrumental in raising thousands of items from water packs, juices, ice boxes to caps and T-shirts during the collection campaigns.
On Saturday, when the items were distributed, around 75 volunteers used 20 vehicles and covered Al Rayyan, Al Gharaffa, West Bay, Al Sadd, and as far as Al Wakrah, Sumaisma and Al Khor.
“Some of the volunteers took a day off in order to be able to be part of the campaign. We would like to thank their humane gesture,” the official said.
Source: www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=372445&versio...
Oh it's a good thing that my twin brother made it there then..
XD
Wait.. me no have Twin brother!!!
INSHALLAH...!
i am cool minded person,,,!!
it's my pleasure,,,to have lunch with u...!
but can't make it today..may be some other day....!
don't worry hms..he is gonna pay for all of us..!
luv4u no worries !
any day is fine with Me, unless u pay at the end of any Feast ! :)
i will also join at chingari but u pay,
ohh thx choozy !
luv4U...Chill man ! Lets meetup for Lunch at Chingari today and you pay 4 the bill ? Wat say ? :)
rizks english : how are u. u look handsome today lool:))
i am not teaching,,,nothing to any one!!
sorry....SMOKE...!!
chup be hms.....:)
nice to see sensible comments from u, it means now u are turning out to be a sensible guy in this forum, oh gosh what a change.
Choozy darling, English in the mains plz....:)
Dare to explain tat in the PM, plz ? :)
looool again rizks
kamusta kana? mukhang di ka busy ahh ..:))
lol Choozy......
lol rizks sory :((
choozy u blind duck,
NIC has already posted the pic below...see ! :)
luv4U did any of my comments look stupid to you ?
we were just making things clear to him.
and dont teach us wat to do and wat not ?
Thanks.
rizks the pic still not uploading:)
Lv4u sala where can u see speed's comments here? Hmmm??
agree with u ,,, SPEED praa g...!!
hey...rizks, victory & rezyz...y are u guys,,pointing each other that u donated something or not?? have patience...may be due to some reasons,,can't donate something...any one of u!!
don't think like such a stupid,,,try to be part of these kind of campaigns,,,!
hope u guys understand....!
flipfloper its good you weren't there with that pansy hair cut of yours. But good to see your twin bro at the distribution :P
Now That's what I call.. A headline XD
Congrats to all
I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the event, I was busy with my ice cream.
rEzy everyone here is busy in their schedules...
its just, one needs to take out a little time frm their busy schedules same like the way u take out time to go to Toilet, bathroom or visit ur friends etc...:)
Time waits for no One.
Secondly its not Compulsory tat if u register only u can join. Its Open to All whoever would like to join.
Hope to see you sometime in similar campaigns.
Cheers !!
PS: Damn, how can i write so much of sensible comments ? :(
hats off to you guyz, working for noble cause... i dont wana create any controversy, just few doubts i had...cleared now...
nope, i m not in campaign even not registered myself... due to busy schedule... hope some day i get time from busy hours...:)
Rezyz, nope we KNOW that there will be heat after that too, but atleast we KNOW we as a community have done our part to help in whatever way we can through this campaign. We HOPE that though this other companies will come forward and do something similar for these less fortunate people.
On that note answer Rizks question...were YOU there??
Victory ?
a penny from you ;D
rEzyz were u present in any of the one day ?
Contribution, Distribution, Packing Etc ?
so you consider there would be no heat factor after two consecutive weekends... the place which is hot almost an 8 months a year...!
rEzyz! Usually it’s planned for one single day but like last year we had huge sum of donated items, so extended the distribution to two consecutive weekends
how long does the cool campaign goes... consisting of days or weeks... or just for a day, once in an year?
well...rezyz...u asked good question...it depends on our working timings,,,!
we are trying our best to run this campaign,,,so many times as we can,,,!!
THANKS > > > RIZKS! for upload this thread!
Rizks.
you should ask first 'where is pajju?'
where is my pic with paiju ?????
Thx Nic !
DaRuDe i am just an innocent bird ! :(
Here is the picture:
all you just know is to banter around on QL and dont know how to upload a pic on topic even that there were topics posted how to upload pics.
This is a very nice human gesture and at the same time, a shameful certificate of incompetence to the Qatari Authorities who fail to develop and enforce legislation to protect their workers and provide them the minimum dignifying conditions.
Instead, they deprive them from accessing the malls in their only resting day!
Mods plz fixup the pic ?
Well done to all of you. May the Lord reward you all for your efforts....