For the second year, Wheels 'n' Heels was a huge success thanks to a phenomenal level of support and participation.
An estimated 15,000 supporters, volunteers and participants visited Aspire Zone yesterday to join the fun at the annual Wheels 'n' Heels. The event was initiated last year to involve Doha's community in a fun filled event meant to remind the society of the importance of sports and nutrition in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle and promote the message - "Healthy body = Healthy mind".
ROTA thanked the generosity of the title sponsor for the event, Qatar Shell, who supported Wheels 'n' Heels in this capacity for the second year running. Event partners Audi, Al Fardan and Blue Salon, provided competition prizes, along with Doha Golf Club. ConocoPhillips sponsored the Urban Street Artists who demonstrated their aerosol art on an 80' long wall.
ROTA also expressed its thanks to a number of other organizations and individuals for their generous participation, including: Baba Linga, Maria Metri, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Doha, City Center Mall, Qtel and the local media who supported our advertising for the event.
"We are very happy with the amount of support we received and the success of Saturday's event and for this we would like to thank all our sponsors and everyone who participated," said Omnia Nour, Director of Reach Out To Asia.
"All the celebrities who participated - Majida El Roumie, Ronald de Boer, Karim Alami, Eddy Merckx, Sabri Lamouchie and Nada Zeidan - along with many others, gave their time very generously. They provide wonderful role models for our young people and set an excellent example of living a healthy balanced lifestyle, which was the message this event revolves around," she added.
Almost seventy volunteers worked in a variety of roles throughout the day, some who had volunteered for previous ROTA field trips to Pakistan and Lebanon, but many experiencing the opportunity of being involved with the organization for the first time.
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This years Wheel 'n' Heels community charity event organized by Qatar-based charity, Reach Out To Asia (ROTA), took place on Saturday, January 27th at Aspire Zone (formerly Khalifa Stadium).
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ABOUT ROTA:ROTA operates under the umbrella of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. Qatar Foundation is a private, chartered, non-profit organization founded in 1995 by His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar. Guided by the principle that a nation's greatest resource is the potential of its people, the Foundation aims to develop international potential and synergies in these fields through a network of centers devoted to progressive education, research and community welfare.
A Non Governmental Organization (NGO), ROTA has a strategic geographic location within Asia and the Middle East giving it a unique opportunity to support its neighboring countries as they overcome developmental difficulties. The diversity of Qatar's own community - with more than 60% of the expatriate population of Asian origin - gives ROTA added insight and understanding of the various needs and cultural norms of the Asian continent on which it focuses.
ROTA's ultimate goal is to extend Qatar Foundation's mission to Asia; both within Qatar's expatriate community and across the Asian continent. The ROTA program will employ a variety of strategies to support achieving the goals of the UNESCO Education for All movement by the year 2015.
ABOUT SHELL IN QATAR:
In July 2006 Shell and Qatar Petroleum (QP) launched the world-scale 'Pearl GTL' project in Ras Laffan Industrial City. The project comprises the development of upstream gas production facilities as well as an onshore GTL plant that will produce 140,000 barrels per day of GTL products along with 120,000 bpd of condensate, liquefied petroleum gas and ethane. This will be the largest and most complex single project ever embarked within the borders of Qatar. Once completed, Pearl GTL will also be the largest GTL project in the world. In addition to this, in April 2006, QP and Shell broke ground on the Qatargas 4 LNG project that comprises upstream production of approximately 1.4 billion cubic feet (bcf) per day of natural gas, including an average of approximately 70,000 barrels per day of liquefied petroleum gas and condensate combined. Qatargas 4 also includes the construction a 7.8 million tonne-per-annum LNG train. On the shipping front, in November of last year Shell was appointed by the Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd. (Nakilat) to manage its fleet of at least 27 new LNG carriers in a 25-year deal. This agreement will involve Shell providing a range of shipping services to Nakilat including ship management as well as the transfer of know how and expertise to allow Nakilat to develop its own LNG Ship Management Company in Qatar. Shell and QP also continue negotiations on the development of a world-scale ethane based petrochemical cracker. Finally, Shell and the Qatar Foundation (QF) signed an agreement for a 10-year lease in QF's Science and Technology Park where Shell will implement a world-class technology programme.
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Jill McCarthy
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Tel: +974 480 0296
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Posted by Janeta Novakovic, Assistant News EditorWednesday, January 31 - 2007 at 12:04 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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This article was updated on Wed Mar 28 2007.
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