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Closing ceremony of Ha. Utheemu Aligadha Thari Quran Competition 1445 is scheduled to be held tonight.

Utheemu Aligadha Thari Quran Competition was organized by Utheemu Council in collaboration with Wingers, a Civil Society Organization (CSO) in the island. Closing ceremony of the competition will be held tonight at 21:30hrs at Bodu Thakurufaanu Memorial Center Hall and Utheemu Council has invited the residents of the island to attend the closing ceremony.

A total of 55 students from Utheemu School and PreSchool and five individuals participated in this year’s competition, which was open to all. However, Preschool students were excluded from competing for the ‘Utheemu Aligadha Thari’ title.

The competition was held from March 19-23, 2024. The competition were held in three rounds, including the memorized reading part, non-memorized reading part and the Tajweed. ‘Utheemu Aligadha Thari’ will be selected at the final show on to be held tonight.

Speaking regarding the competition, President of Utheemu Council Abdulla Rasheed stated that instead of holding individual competitions in islands with a small population like Utheemu, the council intends to organize a single quality competition in collaboration with institutions and clubs/CSOs and give a good reward to the winners. He further stated that in collaboration with the Centre for the Holy Quran and Utheemu Council have been running a Centre for the Holy Quran branch in the island for the past seven years, which has greatly improved the quality of Quran recitation level among the students of the island and general public.

A cash prize of MVR 8,000 will be awarded to the ‘Utheemu Aligadha Thari’ winner and an Umrah trip. Umrah trip is sponsored by Nawa Hajj Umrah Group.

This is the third consecutive year the competition is being held by the council in collaboration with Wingers.

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