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Kuwait's Al-Shemmari honored as Arab youth excellence laureate

Arab League honored Kuwait's Al-Shemmari as Arab youth excellence laureate
Arab League honored Kuwait's Al-Shemmari as Arab youth excellence laureate
CAIRO, Aug 11 (KUNA) -- The Arab League hosted a celebration to honor the winners of the Arab youth excellence awards 2022, including Abdullah Al-Shemmari, of Kuwait, who won the third award for voluntary action.
The awards are offered by the Council of Arab Ministers of Youth and Sports, whose executive council is currently chaired by Egypt.
The celebration, co-organized by the League and the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports on Thursday on the eve of the International Youth Day, gathered a number of ambassadors and representatives of UN agencies based in Cairo.
Speaking to KUNA on the fringes of the event, Al-Shemmari thanked Kuwait's Public Youth Authority for nominating him to the award for his Alamal Voluntary Electronic Newspaper.
The newspaper specializes in the affairs of persons with disability in the State of Kuwait and other countries in the region, and offers useful information to those persons and their families via Alamal portal, he said.
"The idea of the project first sprang to my mind in 2008 when I heard about His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award; its disability category inspired me to make life easier for those people," Al-Shemmari noted.
He dedicated the award to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for their constant support to Kuwaiti youth.
During the celebration, the Arab League's Assistant Secretary-General for Social Affairs Haifa Abu-Ghazaleh and Egypt's Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Abdullah Al-Batesh handed the awards to Al-Shemmari and the other winners. (end) afm.aff.gb