The Kanoo Group organises blood donation drive

Dubai, UAE: The Kanoo Group launched its 19^th Blood Donation Drive for all its employees, in collaboration with Blood Donation Center, Latifa Hospital. The campaign was held on 19^th April 2018 at its Bur Dubai headquarters.

This comes as a part of The Kanoo Group’s emphasis on the importance of social corporate responsibility, which includes supporting hospitals and blood banks in replenishing their supplies.

Commenting on the campaign, Ms. Maha Kanoo, Head of HR and Marketing said, “At The Kanoo Group, we believe that we have a responsibility towards our local community. One day it could be someone you love who needs a blood transfusion. Donating blood is one of the highest forms of helping people and saving lives.”

“The Kanoo Group is engaged in various initiatives such as this Blood Donation Drive which we organise every year, in partnership with the Ministry of Health. We aim to raise awareness on this cause by encouraging positive practices to benefit the individual and society, whilst also helping promote a healthy lifestyle amongst our staff,” added Mr. Ali Islim, Marketing Manager-UAE & Oman.

The blood donation event lasted for half day with a large number of employees volunteering to donate blood. A total of 56 successful donors contributed remarkably in favour of the success of the campaign, reflecting their willingness to support such causes in light of the company’s continuous efforts to serve the community's goals. 

See also: 18th Blood Donation Drive held at The Kanoo Group Bur Dubai HQ

To make blood donation safe and increase the confidence of the employees in voluntary blood donation, many safety measures has been recently implemented by the Ministry of Health. Stringent, meticulous and serious donor screening is necessary to afford protection to blood donors and recipients.

A representative of the hospital said that The Kanoo Group had one of the highest numbers of successful donors from their previous weeks’ visits with other organisations, thus concluding on a very positive note.

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Ms. Maha Kanoo remarked, “As such, on behalf of The Kanoo Group, I would like to thank each and every employee who donated blood, as well as the staff of Latifa Hospital for helping us host such a fruitful event.” I also commend the Marketing and Property team for their efforts in the culmination of this yearly cause.”

Listed below are the names of donors in the recent Blood Campaign:

PHOTOS: The Kanoo Group Blood Donation Campaign 2018

Donor	Division
1.          Clement Dsouza	Accounts
2.          Natarajan Venkataraman Mahalingam	Accounts
3.          Vinod Palluveetil	Accounts
4.          Ragini Amar Shah	Accounts
5.          Sanjayan Chettipparan Raghavan	BRC
6.          Mohammed Ismail Saleh Alahwal	Communication
7.          Valentino Victorino Reyes	Communication
8.          Chandrashekhar Deepak Diwadkar	Engineering
9.          Hashim Puthanpeedikayil Moitheen	Engineering
10.      Kaushal Bharatbhai Pandya	Engineering
11.      Usman Gani Shaik	Engineering
12.      Anas Bin Rafat Rafatul Islam Usmani	Engineering
13.      Roshan Ramachandran Menon	IT
14.      Vipin Ravindranath	IT
15.      Ajith Kumar Puthusserikunnel * Nair	KANRENT
16.      Mohamed Rasool Bakhsh Khuda Bakhsh Al Bulushi	Legal
17.      Rithu Ravindran Pottiyan	Machinery
18.      Priyanka Saigal Saigal	Machinery
19.      Tina Kishore Motwani	Management
20.      Ali Jawdat Ali Islim	Marketing
21.      Ramesh Varakkoth Kalliatan	Marketing
22.      Mudassir Adeel Mohammad	Property
23.      Kalpesh Babubhai Rathod	Property
24.      Pinaki Raj Regmi	Property
25.      Girisha Siddappa Siddappa	Property
26.      Jaber Abdallah Mohamad Zanda	Public Relation
27.      Sajith Baby	Shipping
28.      Jennalene Baysic Batol	Shipping
29.      Christian Mascarinas Mondragon	Shipping
30.      Muhammad Umair Awan Muhammad Ilyas Awan	Shipping
31.      Vaidyanathan Paramesha	Shipping
32.      Neena Xavier	Shipping
33.      Sreehari Venkitachalam	The Travel Attaché
34.      Erico Amparo Adorino	Transport
35.      Majid Raees Alda	Travel
36.      Mudassar Farooq Farooq I Azam	Travel
37.      Aditi Bhattacharjee	Travel
38.      Ram Chandra Bhattarai	Travel
39.      Ahmar Farooqui	Travel
40.      Jeofson Constancio Fernandes	Travel
41.      Jomin George	Travel
42.      Lijo Gilbert	Travel
43.      Melissa Gonsalves	Travel
44.      Qusai Habib	Travel
45.      Joel John	Travel
46.      Anjleen Neelima Thomas Kachhap	Travel
47.      Abrar Ahmed Khan	Travel
48.      Wasantha Kumara Langappuli	Travel
49.      Joy Sayson De Los Santos	Travel
50.      Muhammad Faraz Alam Khan Muhammad Ayaz	Travel
51.      Telge Chatura Piyamantha Peiris	Travel
52.      Rony Rodrigues	Travel
53.      Bhadur Hussain Syed	Travel
54.      Waqar Ahmed Syed Munir Ui Hassan Zaidi	Travel
55.      Saleem Vayappurath	Travel
56.      Iftikhar Uddin Zahigum Ud Din	Travel

About The Kanoo Group

‘The Kanoo Group’ is one of the largest, independent, family-owned groups of companies in the Gulf region established in 1890. It has diversified business industries in shipping, travel, machinery, engineering, logistics, property, oil & gas, power, industrial chemicals, training, joint ventures, retail and commercial activities, among others, and operates extensively throughout Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen and Qatar.

Our Vision
The Leading Family Business in the Region and Beyond

Our Mission 
Delivering Sustainable Excellence

Our Values 
Customer Focused, Ethical, Innovative, Agile, Competent & Intelligent, Collaborative, Accountable 

P.O. Box 290, Dubai, UAE. Toll Free: 800 KANOO, Fax: 04-3933636, Websites: www.kanoo.com / www.kanoogroup.com 

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