Productive families honoured
Manama : The awards for Productive Families instituted by Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Wife of HM the King and President of the Supreme Council for Women (SCW), was distributed yesterday.
HRH Princess Sabeeka deputised Shaikha Hessa bint Khalifa Al Khalifa, Wife of Shaikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Executive Director of INJAZ Bahrain to attend the ceremony, organised by the Labour and Social Development Ministry at the Sharifa Al-Awadhi Children and Youth Club in Riffa.
Shaikha Hessa honoured the winners of HRH Princess Sabeeka’s Award for Productive Families.
The Arab edition of the Best Productive Family Award was granted to the family of Nawal bint Al-Fadhel, from Morocco, while the local edition was granted to the family of Said Al-Ghaib.
The Best Product Award was clinched by Ahmed Abdulaziz, from Qatar and Nawal Mohammed Abdulla, from Bahrain.
Sudan-based Omdurman National Bank, and the Royal Charity Organisation, from Bahrain, won the Best Sponsor of Productive Families Award, for the Arab and local editions, respectively.
Shaikha Hessa also inaugurated an exhibition showcasing productive families’ items. The expo aims to motivate low-income families to enter into small enterprises, encourage talent, as well as hone and embrace skills, and provide an opportunity for families to find new sources of income to improve their economic conditions.
193 families from Bahrain, 12 from GCC and Arab countries, participated in this year’s HRH Princess Sabeeka’s Award for Productive Families.
In a speech during the ceremony, Labour and Social Development Minister, Jameel Humaidan, extended sincere thanks and appreciation to HRH Princess Sabeeka for patronising the event, and personal interest in supporting the fruitful outcomes of one of her pioneering initiatives, as well as development and humanitarian projects aimed at serving the family and society.
He also extended deepest congratulations to Princess Sabeeka for being granted the Arab Women in recognition of her unrelenting efforts to empower Arab women and ensure sustainable development of Bahraini women as well as maximize their development contributions.
The minister praised HRH Princess Sabeeka’s unwavering support to the Productive Families project, which, he said, has yielded many achievements and positive results, adding that her royal patronage of award for ten year is a reassertion of her strong belief in the need to continue support such a vital project which reached the Arab world.
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