| Awards given by Welfare Association
The Welfare Association offers three awards in the following categories:
- The Welfare "Giving" Award in recognition of distinctive contributions by institutions and personalities over the years thus enabling the Association, as a leading Palestinian non-governmental development and humanitarian organization, to achieve its aims and carry out its mission.
- The Welfare NGO "Achievement" Award which is presented to civil society institutions that have achieved distinguished accomplishments in various developmental fields, service delivery and capability and capacity building.
- The Welfare "Excellence" Award, presented to prominent individuals world-wide who have shown distinction in the human, cultural, and science fields.
WA presents the 2005 "Excellence" AWARD to Mr. Suheil Khoury
Suhail Khoury, General Director of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine, received the Welfare Association "Excellence" Award, presented to prominent individuals world-wide who have shown distinction in the human, cultural, and science fields. Khoury’s award was for his musical creativity and for his distinctive efforts in developing the ESNCM over the years .
The Award was presented on Thursday, November 30 in Dubai during the Welfare Association Benefit Dinner “Jerusalem in Our Hearts” aiming at raising funds for the renovation and rehabilitation program for the buildings in the Old City of Jerusalem and surrounding neighborhoods and to encourage their inhabitants to stay in their homes
2003 "GIVING" AWARD GOES TO THE ARAB FUND
The Welfare Association has presented the Kuwait-based Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development with its first "Giving" Award, in recognition of the Fund's notable contributions towards supporting sustainable Palestinian development. Mr. Abdul Muhsen Al-Qattan, then Vice-Chairman of the Board (currently Co-Chairman of the Board with Mr. Said Khoury), Mr. Ali Al-Radwan, Dr. Nabil Qaddumi, Tareq Zuaiter and Rana Sadik, all members of the board, handed the Award to Mr. Abdul-Latif Al-Hamad, the Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Fund. The award, the first ever given by WA, was announced by the Welfare Association in December, 2003 during a ceremony in Dubai to commemorate its 20th anniversary.
Welfare Association Board members present the Giving Award to Mr. Abdul
Latif Al-Hamad, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of
the Arab Fund
Three Palestinian NGOs win WA's 2004 NGO "Achievement" Award
WA has selected the following three Palestinian NGOs to receive its first NGO "Achievement" Award which was given at a ceremony in Amman on May 4, 2005. The winning NGOs are:
Awards Received by WA
IT4Youth wins best practices, 2004
Welfare Association's project, IT4Youth in Rural Areas, has won a $30,000 prize. The $4m project is implemented by WA in partnership with the International Youth Foundation and mainly funded by USAID. The prize was won in a competition for the best practice projects. The project, together with 9 others each to win $30,000, was picked from 700 projects submitted to the Dubai Municipality and UN Habitat (a United Nations Agency) by an international Jury in Nairobi.
The 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture to OCJRP
The Old City of Jerusalem Revitalization Program won the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The Award Presentation Ceremony in Delhi on November the 27th 2004 was presided over by the Aga Khan and the Indian Prime Minister. The Award recipients and members of the Master Jury and Steering Committee were joined by Indian dignitaries and international guests for the ceremony. Awards were won by six contestants other than the OCJRP. They were the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, the Gando Primary School, Gando, Burkina Faso, Sandbag Shelter Prototypes for refugees and displaced persons developed by the Iranian architect Nader Khalili, Restoration of al-Abbas Mosque Asnaf, Yemen, B2 House Canakkale, Turkey and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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