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KT lucky draw winner drives away in Mazda 3
KT lucky draw winner drives away in Mazda 3 Staff Reporter / 16 August 2013 Khaleej Times (KT) launched a special scheme for 35 days with a special annual subscription rate of Dh350 as part of KT’s celebrations of 35 years with subscribers being given redeemable vouchers worth Dh550 and a chance to win a Mazda 3. THE LUCKY SUBSCRIBER….Venkatraman Prakash, winner of the Khaleej Times lucky draw and wife Rama, receive the keys to a Mazda 3 from Constance Moraes, Circulation Manager, Khaleej Times, along with Axel Dreyer, General Manager, Galadari Automobiles Co. Ltd.— KT photo by Juidin Bernarrd As per KT ’s Circulation Manager, Constance Moraes, the scheme got a tremendous response with new subscribers coming into KT ’s fold. KT’ s lucky draw winner, and now proud owner of a new car, Venkatraman Prakash, a Logistics Manager at Al Tajir Glass, accompanied by his wife, Rama, drove an electric blue Mazda 3 away from the Mazda showroom on Shaikh Zayed Road on Tuesday afternoon. Rama’s favourite part of the newspaper is City Times . She is the first person to wake up in the household and brew her morning coffee, so the paper is first hers. Rama enjoys reading the Wknd magazine which she saves every week to post to her daughter, a model married and settled in Muscat, but who visits them every few months. The Prakash couple was pleased with the colour of the car although Venkatraman said he wouldn’t have minded a red. Their other car is a grey-coloured Dodge. Venkatraman will drive the Mazda 3 to his office in Jebel Ali, but only every alternate day as he is part of a car pool. Tuesday being not his day to drive to work, Venkatraman got dropped to the new Mazda showroom so he could drive the new car back to their home in Al Qusais. The couple was greeted and handed over the keys of their new car by Moraes and Axel Dreyer, General Manager of Galadari Automobiles Co. Ltd. The pair shook hands with the new owner and his wife, and wished them the best of luck. Rama promised a treat — “Definitely!” — to the delivery boy who gets her copy of KT to her doorstep. — news@khaleejtimes.com Continue reading
Generous gift from ‘stranger’ could save Sarah-Jean’s life
Generous gift from ‘stranger’ could save Sarah-Jean’s life Sarah Young / 21 June 2013 A generous last-minute gift from a person who wishes to remain anonymous in the UAE will see an Abu-Dhabi girl get the life-saving operation she needs. Sarah-Jean Masinas, 20, who lives in Abu Dhabi, has Acute Myleoid Leukemia (AML), and requires a bone-marrow transplant. After a year of searching for a donor, she finally found a match through a hospital in Sweden — but the operation came with a Dh900,000 price tag, and a time limit. Her parents, who earn Dh7,000 between them a month, have been fundraising for months to find the amount before they meet with the Swedish Embassy on June 23 to seek a visa. Given the aggressive nature of her cancer, and the fact her body cannot take any more chemotherapy, the operation must go ahead in early July when the donor is ready. Her mother, Rosalie Masinas, was overjoyed on Thursday to find out they had reached their target, thanks to a charity auction earlier this week which raised Dh46,000 — and a mysterious auction-goer who pledged to donate any remaining dirhams needed to reach the total. This donation turned out to be a generous Dh61,500, she said. The family had also raised Dh14,000 through the online donation site http://www.youcaring.com/ since a Khaleej Times article about her daughter’s plight was published on June 17, Masinas said. “I was so excited. I don’t know how to describe it, but I’m really, really happy. I just want to thank everyone so much. When they transferred the remaining amount, I was really crying. I was just so relieved. And maybe I will be crying again in the second week of July, if we get the visa and it can go ahead.” Masinas said her daughter had been shocked, and kept asking if it was really true. “She couldn’t believe it, either. She was crying, too.” Sarah-Jean was diagnosed with AML in 2010 when she returned to her home-country of the Philippines to study radiology. She was treated with chemotherapy in the UAE and the illness went into remission, but returned last year and doctors have said a transplant is the only option left. Dubai resident Zeina Naim was the driver behind the The Gramercy’s Charity Auction Night hosted by Virgin Radio’s DJ Kris Fade on Monday evening. “I found out about Sarah’s case just after trying to help a little girl with the same type of Leukemia, called Lea Joven who unfortunately passed away last November. My friends and I read about Sarah-Jean and since we had some knowledge about charities here who may be able to help, like Friends of Cancer Patients in Sharjah, and a bit about hospitals abroad that do bone marrow transplants we reached out to Sarah’s mom, and started our plight to raise money for Sarah.” sarah@khaleejtimes.com Continue reading
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