McDonald’s Qatar Celebrates the World Children’s Day
- A humanitarian occasion for children celebrated by McDonald’s for the 6th year in a row -

Qatar-September- 2007: Celebrating the World Children’s Day (WCD) in Qatar for the sixth year in a row, McDonald’s Qatar is launching a humanitarian campaign under the name “A smile is just a thought away”. A party was held at the Al Shafallah Center as a celebration to kick-start this year’s campaign which will run for around two months. The campaign is aimed at generating funds from the sale of the WCD drawing sets at all McDonald’s restaurants for the benefit of The AlShafallah Center for Children with Special Needs.

Commenting on the launch of the campaign, Kamal Al Mana, McDonald’s Qatar Managing Director said: “World Children’s Day is an annual humanitarian occasion of a great importance to us, due to the benefit it has for our children in the country. And celebrating this occasion every year is yet another milestone in our commitment towards our local community and a continuation to the support we extend to children’s causes”

And new this year, McDonald’s is giving children a chance to have their say in a different way. Whereby children age 6 to 12 can participate in the World Children’s Day drawing contest to express their care and share a smile with other children from Al Al Shafallah Centre.

Submitted children drawings will be screened to select the best ten drawings. And at the end of the campaign, McDonald’s will be awarding the winners of the drawing contest at a celebration on November 20th.
“The giving back spirit of this campaign, does not concern only tangible support, it is more of a morale support especially coming from children in a unique and different way, understandable and appreciative by other children” Mr. Kamal added.

McDonald’s is cooperating this year with the leading children TV channel - MBC3 - to deliver the message of this campaign across a wider target audience and eventually generate more funds and attracts more participants in the drawing contest.

McDonald’s Qatar holds Training Class

Doha. AlMana Restaurants and Food Company (McDonald’s Qatar), conducted a Swing Manager’s Class held at McDonald’s Ras Abu Aboud branch. The three-day class is aimed to develop and enhance crew leadership skills through ventures, open discussions and activities that focused on McDonald’s principles on people practices, food safety and ways on achieving outstanding customer satisfaction.

“Over the years, we provide the best training for our staff through international & regional training to develop their skills and as part of our ‘People Promise’ philosophy Said Kamal AlMana, Managing Director of AlMana Restaurants and Food Company. “We believe that through well-trained people, we can deliver the highest quality of service that we promise to deliver to our customers,” he added.

Awards and citations were given during the concluding ceremony where participants received several recognition, which includes:

The Gold Hut and the Archie Award which was given to Timothy Bermudez, for having contributed the most ideas in the class and for topping the exam. And the Dean’s list award, which were given to Alain Madueno and Jonald Herera.

The class was participated by representatives form all of the ten McDonald’s restaurants in Qatar.