R K Murugan, Acting Chief Executive Officer, with the winners of 13th Toyota Dream Car Contest at the award ceremony.
Abdullah Abdulghani & Bros. Co (AAB), sole dealers for Toyota in Qatar, has awarded the lucky winners of the ‘13th Toyota Dream Car Contest’ in a special ceremony.
The participation numbers for this year’s event, as anticipated, exceeded expectations with over 1,500 registered young participants from over 160 schools further endorsing the widespread popularity of the Contest.
The Award Ceremony which was held at AAB’s main Toyota showroom on April 1, saw winners of all three age categories receiving individual certificates, medals and gifts and with the representatives of their respective schools also receiving special congratulatory mementos. All the winning drawing will be sent to Japan for the Global competition and one of the winner could be lucky to travel to Japan in a trip fully paid with his parents.
Under the category 1 for children below the age of 8, Palak Banzal from DPS - Modern Indian School won first prize. The second and third prizes went to Serah Maria Rejeesh from DPS - Modern Indian School and Aaliya Rafeek from MES Indian School.
Under the category 2 for children between the ages of 9 and 11, Krishna Mahesh Kumar from MES Indian School received first prize. Payal Ramesh Attuvalappil from Birla Public School and Neeraj Rengith Chandran from Shantiniketan Indian School won second and third prizes, respectively.
Under the category 3 for children between the ages of 12 and 15, Khadijah bint Shabbir Ali from Al Arqam International Academy for Girls got first prize. Nandana Biju Kumar from Birla Public School received second prize and Janisha Meshak Selvaraj from MES Indian School won the third prize.
As Abdullah Abdulghani believes in cultivating the Qatari community, and in line with AAB’s vision to develop and promote local talent, Special Jury Awards were also presented.
The winner of Special Jury Awards under the category 1 is Fatima Mohammad Al Kaabi from Afwaz Global School. Al Reem Hamad Abdelaziz Al Yafei from Al Bayan Primary School and Khalfan Fahad Al Sowaidi from Afwaz Global School won the award of category 2.
The Special Jury Awards of category 3 went to Haleema Hassan Ali Abdullah Hiji Al Baker from Moza Bint Mohammed Preparatory School and Haya Hassan Al Muhannadi from Al Khor Independent Preparatory School.
R K Murugan, Acting Chief Executive Officer, said that as one of AAB’s community-oriented initiatives, the ‘Toyota Dream Car Contest’ held a special place in their hearts as it involved children, the future ‘guardians of the world’. He also showed the Company’s happiness in seeing the increasing number of kids and schools taking part in such a contest.
