DEWA Honours Women's Teams for Sheikha Hind Sports Tournament

HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has honoured DEWA’s women sports teams for their successful participation in the Sheikha Hind Women Sports Tournament 2015. The tournament was organised in September by the Dubai Sports Council’s Women's Sports Committee based on the directives of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, and under the patronage of HH Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. 

Al Tayer commended the results achieved by the sports teams, and praised DEWA’s Women's Committee for making sure that staff got the necessary training, despite the fact that DEWA’s female sports teams were formed less than a month before the start of the tournament.

DEWA’s running team won a gold medal in the teams’ category in the Road Race. DEWA staff Suad Abdulla came second and Nada Khaled third in the individual category. DEWA’s basketball team came second in the tournament, and DEWA’s Mechelle Apalit, won the first position in the badminton championship.

“DEWA exerts great efforts to enable women staff in all areas to enhance their capabilities and effective participation in the development process of DEWA and society as a whole. We believe in the important role women play in the economic, social, and cultural development. This year, DEWA formed women’s sports teams as part of its strategy to provide a positive and motivating work environment for its staff, to achieve a good work-life balance, and improve their health and fitness,” said Al Tayer.

Khawla Al Mehairi, Chairperson of DEWA’s Women’s Committee, praised DEWA’s management for their unlimited support of women working at DEWA, and the care they give to women’s sports teams.

“We are very proud of the results achieved by DEWA’s women sport teams in the Sheikha Hind Women’s Sports Tournament, despite the fact that the women’s sports team were formed less than a month before the tournament. On behalf of DEWA’s Women’s Committee, I thank DEWA’s top management, DEWA’s women sports teams led by Khuloud Al Ali who made distinct efforts with the teams, Dubai Sports Council’s Women's Sports Committee, and all the organisations that participated in the tournament which instils a sporting spirit among contestants and enhances the relationships among Dubai Government’s women employees,” added Al Mehairi.

DEWA’s Women’s sports teams participated in basketball, handball, road race, badminton, cycling, chess, and swimming competitions.