By Michelle Fe SantiagoArab Times Staff

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 24: A new-ly-formed umbrella organisation of all Filipino photography groups in Kuwait will be embarking on its first project, a photo shoot for a cause for the benefit of the Kabay-an Cancer Support Group in com-memoration of the Breast Cancer Awareness month this October.

The new umbrella organisation named KLIK which stands for Kapisanan ng mga Litratistang Pilipino sa Kuwait is composed of PINDOT- Pinoy Digital Pho-tographers in Kuwait, Lightbend-ers (LB), Maniniyot sa Kuwait (MK), Pinoy Snappers, KOLAB and PIX-Pinoy Imagery Xpres-sionist.

“This group has been formed in order to build camaraderie and uni-ty among all the Filipino Photogra-phy Groups and we’re very happy of the warm reception of all the groups,” stated PINDOT President Job Rejante who took the initiative to contact all the other groups.

The six groups agreed to orga-nise the first project dubbed “A KLIK of Hope,” a unity photo shoot for the benefit of Filipino

cancer patients on Friday, Oct 27, 2017.

All Filipino professional and amateur photographers includ-ing hobbyists are invited to take part in the photo shoot. Assembly time will be at 4:00am-4:30am at the McDonald’s in Mahboula and from there, the group will proceed for the Sunrise shoot.

The event supported by AAB World and Pinoy Arabia FM will be featuring some models that will include some of the Filipino cancer patients.

To all those who are inter-ested to participate in the event, they may contact the following: PINDOT – Job M. Rejante III – President 97101135, Antonio Alcantara I – Vice-President , Arnel Aguinaldo – Secretary – 65141184, Paris Recinto – Trea-surer – 66631457, Fernandico Malilay – Auditor – 97273943; Lightbenders – Leogel Lagaras – 66789804, Christopher San-an – 99478927, Ramil Sunga – 65067108; Maniniyot Kuwait

Alex D. Manuel – President – 50824225, Villamor Cederon AKA Techno – MK Founder 65551435; KOLAB – Ryan Adigue – Found-er – 55973388, Arfe Samstill – Founder- 66734038; PIX – Hilario Biscocho – President – 55226279, Ronnie Bautista – Treasurer – 94008085; Pinoy Snappers – Ar-man Berza – Vice President – 55338446 and Celeste Barretto – Treasurer – 50148515.

The best photos taken on that day will be awarded with some prizes by the AAB World. “We hope to see everyone on Friday. Let’s do this to have fun and at the same time help our fellow Fili-pinos afflicted with cancer,” en-joined Rejante.

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Kuwait’s JACC winsENR’s Award of Merit

One of the best int’l projects

NEW YORK, Oct 24, (KUNA): Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Cen-tre (JACC) have won the Award of Merit from the American architectural engineering magazine (ENR) for being one of the best international proj-ects.

The announcement made dur-ing a special ceremony held in The Sheraton (Times Square) late Monday.

JACC is one of the fastest inter-national engineering projects that have been made in terms of design and implementation.

A team of engineers from the Amiri Diwan, local and interna-tional experts worked day and night for 22 consecutive months to com-plete this architectural building, which was finished in record time.

Huge quantities of building ma-terials were used in the construc-tion of the project, including 21 thousand tons of iron and 52 thou-sand square meters of titanium to cover buildings from outside.

The center has taken the Flag Square as its podium with a to-tal area of 214,000 square meters, while area of construction reached more than 110,000 square meters. Gardens and green escapes cover-ing more than 120,000 square me-ters with four buildings, a dancing fountain and facilities to serve visi-tors were all put into consideration in the designing stage.

The design of the center was in-spired by the distinctive beauty and creativity of the Islamic architec-ture. It includes large areas allow-ing visitors to enjoy the interior of the center and its geometric design of the halls and theaters.

Its location on the Arabian Gulf Road, one of the vital roads in Ku-wait, has added a touristic impor-tance to it.

The Engineering News-Record (ENR) awards are dedicated to the best global projects that challenges and both designs and constructions in other countries.

A photo from the lecture.

‘KLIK of Hope’ poster

Educational, awareness lecture held

Rate of increase in number ofexpats down by 65 pc in ’17

The Security and Safety Depart-ment of Kuwait University Sun-day organized an educational and awareness lecture titled “Emer-gency Evacuation Exercises” at the Abdullah Al-Jaber Theater in the Shuwaikh Campus.

The lecture was based on a se-

curity and safety management strat-egy to spread preventive awareness to students and employees. It was aimed at introducing the right proce-dures to be applied and followed in case of fire incidents as well as the proper mechanism for dealing with crises and emergencies.

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 24: The rate of increase in the number of ex-patriates has decreased by 65 per-cent in 2017 for the first time since 1992, reports Al-Qabas daily.

The Demographics Affairs Com-mittee of the Cabinet carried out a comparative study as per which the number of non-Kuwaitis increased by 125,694 in 2017 compared to last year. The number of non-Ku-waitis increased by 358,719 com-pared to 2015. This indicates that the rate of increase in the number of expatriates is reducing.

According to sources, the reason behind such a reduction is the deci-sions taken by Ministry of Interior

and Public Authority for Manpow-er to trim down the number of mar-ginal workers. This can be consid-ered as one of the achievements of the supreme demographic council.

The sources stressed that the de-crease in the number of non-Ku-waitis has contributed to decrease in the total population of Kuwait in 2017 including Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis such that only 35 percent increase was observed in 2016.

Meanwhile, the study revealed that the number of Kuwaiti citizens have been increasing at a range of 30,000 to 32,000 per year with 51 percent of male population and 49 percent female population.

The KLIK core group.

KLIK to organize Photo Shoot for Kabayan Cancer Support Group

‘A KLIK of Hope’ set for Oct 27