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Celebrating the festive season and the spirit of giving, Arsenal Soccer School Bahrain is organising The Palm Association Cup 2013 charitable tournament, on Friday, December 6, at the Bahrain Rugby Football Club in Janabiya.
The event comes as part of activities lined up by the Palm Association for its Festive Fair and comprises three 6v6 tournaments – one for ladies and two for children.
This season is a time for family celebration and is all about fun and enjoyment. Through our tournament, we’d like to welcome and encourage participants and supporters to take part and enter into the spirit of the season by uniting for a good cause.
The first event, for children born in 2003/04 and 05 will be at 9.30am, followed by the Ladies’ event at 10.30am and the third, for children born in 2001/02 and 03 at 12.30pm.
Registration costs BD40 per team and each team must ensure a minimum of six players and a maximum of eight. Each junior team should have a responsible adult with it.
All proceeds raised from the event will go towards the Palm Association’s charitable initiatives around Bahrain.
Noted for its charitable endeavours, The Palm Association is dedicated to providing help and assistance to Bahraini families, women and children with the greatest need.
Over the past 13 years it has helped countless families through the distribution of food parcels, home improvements and educational sponsorship.
Registration for teams ends on Tuesday, December 3. Send entries to andy@arsenalschoolbahrain.com
Sue Gale,
The Palm Association.
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Through rain and shine, as well as civil unrest, Bahrain’s schools always strive to deliver our children’s education. And the educational show must go on even if we had encountered the worst flooding in recent memory. We all know that the weather has created havoc when travelling across Bahrain with our journeys to work becoming a proverbial nightmare as we negotiate the flooding, dirty water, occasional failed traffic signals, breakdowns and massive congestion.
What about the journeys to school this week by our dear children either by bus or by car across the island?
Despite the chaos (and the lamentable and unacceptable state of Bahrain’s drainage systems will be the subject of a further letter in due course) and the lack of effective traffic management, I must commend St Christopher’s School, Isa Town, for the defiant way it has dealt with being a marooned institution located on a separate island in recent days.
The positively energetic manner by which its staff dealt with the consequences of the flooding is a lesson to us all in how to take ownership of a problem practically, and with some invention, to ensure that education would take place according to plan.
I witnessed teachers and staff from St Christopher’s going well above and beyond the call of duty in true Dunkirk spirit (but not in retreat, I might add) to ensure that students could negotiate the heavily-flooded entrance of the school and get into the school.
I managed to drive through Lake Isa Town to drop off my daughter when the deep flood waters virtually covered the entire areas outside the Sacred Heart, Indian and St Christopher’s schools.
Early morning there was impressive engineering already in place at the entrance to St Christopher’s with a kind of Bailey bridge landing stage already installed above the water-line where students could disembark with a guiding hand from waiting teachers and staff.
What impressed me most was the leadership and example from the very top with a hands-on headmaster, Nick Wilson, directing operations like a quartermaster admirably supported by other teachers and staff. I even witnessed one teacher standing bare-footed and ankle-high in dirty water helping students transfer from the landing stage to dry land. If they could have parted the Red Sea in biblical terms they would have done so.
Congratulations to everybody at St Christopher’s for not giving in to the weather and for making sure that its students received their education this week. Other faint-hearts might have bowed to the weather conditions but not Brigadier Wilson and his crack troops.
Geoffrey Milne,
Riffa Views
