Recently, 63 members of Best Buddies Qatar Clubs at the Centers and Schools for Children with Special Needs, participated in yoga and other sports activities organised by Six Senses Spa in Sharq Village.
Six Senses Spa contributes to Best Buddies Qatar through holding sports sessions for its members yearly.
This year the exercising programme was expanded to gym for boys under watchful assistance of the Spa instructors. The events continued with basic gym exercises followed with refreshing outdoor walking along the seaside.
Participants had healthy lunch provided by Shaq Village.
Abdullah Almimi, High School Programme Coordinator at Best Buddies Qatar, commented: “Best Buddies Qatar members with intellectual disabilities and their peer friends without intellectual disabilities received great joy and expressed a lot of enthusiasm and activity during exercising.”
Francisca Rocha Antunes, Regional Operations Director of Six Senses Spa, said: “Six Senses Spa Doha at Sharq Village & Spa is delighted to welcome Best Buddies Qatar members. Following the success of previous years’ Yoga class and massage workshop, Six Senses Spa is committed to supporting Best Buddies Qatar’s cause of enhancing lives and creating opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It is at the heart of Six Senses Spas to be responsible and caring as we believe that people are the heart of everything we do. The experiences we craft, the service we deliver and the connections that we build are based on our deep commitment to nurture people and thus become positive participants in the local communities. “
Laalei Abu Alfain, Executive Director at Best Buddies Qatar, said: “We thank Six Senses SPA for holding yoga events and other sports activities for Best Buddies Qatar members yearly. We appreciate their support, as well as other government and private sector entities, of Best Buddies Qatar mission to enhance lives of people with and without intellectual disabilities through social integration and one-to-one meaningful long lasting friendship.”
The Peninsula
