Riyadh: KWAR Members have a 'Ball' at Annual Sports Day
Pics: Uday Rodrigues & Manoj Aranha
Riyadh, Dec 8: Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh (KWAR) held its annual sports day recently, with KWAR members and their families participating actively in the event. The day started with a traditional breakfast in Karavali style followed by women’s throwball match with three teams participating in the competition - Barsa, Konkan Ghar Riyadh and KGR2.
Barsa team was declared as the winner and Konkan Ghar Riyadh took the runner-up trophy.
Various games were conducted for the children by the ladies wing of KWAR. Children took part in the games in big numbers. The games conducted were - name housie; dice game; months of the year; hoop game for children between the age group 10 -15; lemon and spoon game for children between the age group 7-9; and craft game (animals and babies) for children below 6 years of age.
Bean bag race and passing the hat games were conducted for ladies. There was lucky draw conducted by Royston Prabhu. Jayanth Salian, Rajiv Kamath, Godwin Mendonca, Bhaskar P M and Arun D'Sa were the lucky people who won the prizes.
The day-long Gully cricket for men, with six members a team got good response with 12 teams participating in it. In the finals, Udupi Friends defeated Jolly Boys to lift the KWAR gully cricket trophy.
In the afternoon session there was volleyball for men, in which nine teams participated. Bankal Sports won the volleyball trophy by defeating Barsa team in the finals.
The event which evoked great interest among the crowd was throwball finals between Barsa and Konkan Ghar Riyadh. It was the volleyball finals between Bankal Sports and Barsa that made the spectators to be on their toes cheering both the teams. The tug-of-war between the Barsa and Jolly Boys was exhilarating. Jolly Friends won the tug-of-war competition.
KWAR is very proud to announce that the Sport Day was a grand success. KWAR is very grateful to all the sponsors of the Sports Day Event. The event concluded with the National Anthem.
The annual event of Karavali Welfare Association 'KWAR Parba 2012' will be held on December 13 evening, 7 pm onwards. All Karavali people are invited to attend this spectacular event and support this big occasion Please contact KWAR office bearers to get the entry tickets as early as possible. One can also request tickets by writing to kwa.riyadh@gmail.com.