FROM LEFT: Ramzy Hadi, Ford Middle East’s Regional Sales Manager; Lina Al Tarawneh, Dr Aurora M. de Castilla, and Ian Partridge, General Manager, Almana Motors.
Ford Motor Company handed over an amount of $15,000 as grant towards green mangroves project in Qatar as part of the 2016 Ford Motor Company Conservation and Environmental Grants initiative.
The recipient from Qatar, Lina Al Tarawneh for her project “Green Mangroves,” was handed over a cheque by Ford’s Regional Sales Manager Ramzy Hadi and Ian Partridge; General Manager, Almana Motors with Dr Aurora M de Castilla, initiative’s juror in Qatar and Principal Investigator, Acting Research Director, Environmental & Chemical Sciences Group for Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute.
“Green Mangroves” will use the grant for learning through free kayak trips to Purple Island, where expeditions will help raise awareness, and save the mangroves in Al Khor region.
Recipients of Ford’s Conservation and Environmental Grants were applicants from Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia with a total of $120,000 made available.
