BDNE’s day out at Zabeel Park

Dubai, Jan 31: Billawas Dubai & Northern Emirates (BDNE) a premier association of Billawas in Dubai as a part of their ongoing activities, had arranged a picnic on 25th of January, 2013 at Zabeel Park, Dubai.  The day-long Annual Picnic 2013 event was attended by BDNE Working Committee Members with their family and relatives along with fellow Billawa Community members and their families residing in UAE.

BDNE President Shri Jithendra Suvarna with his wife Pramila Suvarna inaugurated the annual   picnic by releasing the colourful balloons in the air.

Special attraction of the day was a stall of homemade breakfast dishes like Pundi with chicken curry, Shemige with coconut milk, Gendadha Adya, Neer dosa, Masala Tea, fruits, chips and juices which were served to the crowd who enjoyed every bit of it.  This arrangement was specially done by Soumya, Satish Ullal and their team.

BDNE working committee members Ganesh Kotian, Sudhakar Poojary & Jayashree Sudhakar distributed the colourful wrist bands to the crowd and segregated them into 4 teams named as Mangalore, Mumbai, Udupi and Karkala.  Throughout the day all the games were played with team scores.  Fun games were also arranged for children and there were variety of games for couples, men, bachelors and ladies efficiently  conducted by Shodhan Prasad, Nagaraj Amin, Sathish Ullal, Vasanth Thumbe, Deepa Jagannath and team.  It was nice to see the fun games like ball in the bucket, emotions game, passing the ring, dodge ball, Housie etc. played with full of sporty spirit.

Out of the four teams played, Mangalore Team scored the maximum points in the fun games and emerged as winner of the day.

A delicious lunch with typical mangaloreans delicacies like Chicken Sukka, vegetable curry, payasa were served to the whole crowd.

Throughout the year Billawas Dubai & Northern Emirates conduct  programmes like Blood donation campaign, Education scholarship distribution for the needy students back home in India, Sri Narayana Guru Pooja, Sports Meet, Annual get-together etc.

At the end of the picnic BDNE President Jithendra Suvarna addressed the crowd and requested all the members to keep supporting the social work that the organization has been doing.