The OGS Dubai team organized a softball tournament on March 3, 2024 at the Pakistan Association Dubai. The OGS Dubai team which comprises of four members, Sanniya Qureshi, Asif Pesnani, Nadiya Kassam and Umair Naqvi had been working for the last couple of weeks to organize this event and to raise awareness for the OGS cause.
As always when Grammarians meet the energy is great, it was a fun afternoon, weather was amazing and families came out in high spirits to play softball. We did an interhouse softball match, Streeton and Napier were the winners (much to the disappointment of the Frerites who were the majority there ). Umair Naqvi and Asif Pesnani led the softball games and did a fantastic job including everyone for the friendly interhouse match!
The venue itself was very special as Pakistan Association Dubai is a volunteer and non profit social welfare and cultural organization for expats in Dubai. Nadiya Kassam organized a tour of the facility for the OGs before starting the match. Pakistan Association Dubai provides state of the art medical care, have an auditorium for events, a fully equipped gym and outdoor fields for sports. It was an absolute pleasure for OGS Dubai to team up with PAD for this event.
Most of us played softball after years, the kids also joined in and for those not playing there was chai, chaat and samoosas to indulge in. We are working to raise awareness about the OGS cause and objectives and at this softball event.
We successfully raised money for the OGS scholarship program based out of Pakistan and look forward to organizing more events in the course of the year and raising more money for OGS!
OGS Dubai team
