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Saturday, 18 May 2013

ROTA hosted reflection event for RAEL program

ROTA hosted reflection event for RAEL program
Qatar’s leading educational not-for-profit organization Reach Out To Asia (ROTA), hosted a reflection event on Tuesday 14th May 2013 at the Education City to recognize the outstanding achievements of Education City’s low-skilled workers and volunteer student tutors who participated in ROTA’s Adult English Literacy (RAEL) Program. The RAEL Reflection Event at the Education City...

Qatar UK 2013 appoints Hamad Al-Eida and Aisha Ghanem Al Attiya as official spokespeople

Qatar UK 2013 appoints Hamad Al-Eida and Aisha Ghanem Al Attiya as official spokespeople
Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture today announced the appointment of Hamad Al-Eida and Aisha Ghanem Al Attiya as its official spokespeople in Qatar. Al-Eida and Al Attiya, who each have extensive backgrounds in cultural and social affairs and media and communications, will act as the cultural exchange programme’s voice to the public. Beginning his career in 1995 as a presenter and...

ROTA volunteers reflect on Cambodia experience

ROTA volunteers reflect on Cambodia experience
Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) today celebrated the success of its recent volunteer trip to Cambodia by hosting a Reflection Event for volunteers, parents and school officials involved in the visit. Student volunteers, parents, teachers and school officials took part in an inspirational event at the Museum of Islamic Art as volunteers showed pictures of from their trip and recited...

ROTA-VCU-Q volunteers depart for Indonesia trip

ROTA-VCU-Q volunteers depart for Indonesia trip
Qatar’s pioneering not-for-profit educational organization, Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) is fostering the spirit of volunteerism in Qatar by partnering with the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCU-Q) to send 25 student and faculty volunteers on a 7-day trip to visit a ROTA-funded technical and vocational education project in Indonesia. The trip is supported by the Vodafone...

ROTA–CNAQ volunteers complete school renovation project in Tunisia

ROTA–CNAQ volunteers complete school renovation project in Tunisia
ROTA’s “CNA-Q student volunteers”, returned to Doha on Sunday 28th April, having spent the previous week carrying out a school renovation project in the western Jendouba Province of Tunisia. During the 9-day trip, the 30-member team of student volunteers from the College of the North Atlantic Qatar (CNA-Q) carried out stripping, plastering and painting of interior and...

Ashghal celebrates the completion of Calligraffiti Project on Salwa Road

Ashghal celebrates the completion of Calligraffiti Project on Salwa Road
The Public Works Authority ‘Ashghal’ in collaboration with the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) today celebrated the completion of the eL Seed “calligraffiti” murals project on Salwa road. Led by French-Tunisian graffiti artist eL Seed and his team, four underground tunnels on Salwa Road are now embellished with artistic graffiti themes inspired by anecdotes from Qatari culture and...

ROTA–CNAQ volunteers depart for Tunisia

ROTA–CNAQ volunteers depart for Tunisia
Thirty student volunteers from the College of the North Atlantic Qatar (CNAQ) have set out on a week-long service learning trip to Tunisia for a school renovation project in the western Jendouba Province of Tunisia. Organized by Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) Qatar’s leading non-profit organization, and sponsored by Vodafone Qatar, the trip is a part of an agreement signed between ROTA and...

ROTA joins Gates Foundation to increase public access to libraries

ROTA joins Gates Foundation to increase public access to libraries
Reach Out To Asia (ROTA), Qatar’s leading non-profit organization and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a three year collaboration deal to increase public access to libraries in Asia and the Middle East. The agreement is a testament to the common belief that ROTA and the Gates Foundation share that achieving the Millennium Development Goals will require new...

Curtains fall on Empower 2013 with focus on water cooperation

Curtains fall on Empower 2013 with focus on water cooperation
Curtains were drawn on yet another successful edition of Empower Youth Conference with future youth leaders converging at the Qatar National Convention Center for the end of three days of the conference, sponsored by Msheireb Properties. Demonstrating ROTA’s commitment to supporting United Nation International Year of Water Cooperation, 400 delegates from Qatar, Gulf Countries,...

Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh Al Thani opens 5th Annual EMPOWER National Youth Conference

Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh Al Thani opens 5th Annual EMPOWER National Youth Conference
Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) board member H.E. Dr.  Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh opened the 5th Annual EMPOWER National Youth Conference, which began today at the Qatar National Convention Center. This year’s event is supported by Msheireb Properties, Qatar’s leading sustainable developer and a subsidiary of Qatar Foundation. Following the official opening, HE Sheikha Dr Aisha bint Faleh...

EMPOWER Youth Conference 2013 to kick-off today

EMPOWER Youth Conference 2013 to kick-off today
The 5th EMPOWER Youth Conference 2013 on Leadership, Service Learning and Global Citizenship, organized by Qatar’s leading educational not-for-profit organization Reach Out To Asia (ROTA), begins at the Qatar National Convention Center (QNCC) on Thursday 28 March. Qatar’s largest annual youth gathering, an expected 400 youth activists and community leaders of the future will come...

ROTA honors volunteers and partners for making Wheel ‘n’ Heels a huge success

ROTA honors volunteers and partners for making Wheel ‘n’ Heels a huge success
Following the success of the Wheels ‘n’ Heels Family Fun Day, Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) honoured volunteers and partners for their outstanding contributions to Qatar’s biggest community event of the year during the Wheels ‘n’ Heels Appreciation Event that took place at Qatar Foundation Students Center. The appreciation event was graced by the attendance of H.E Dr. Sheikha...