Networking and health advice at IFEW Presentation Dinner

The Islamic Foundation for Education and Welfare (IFEW) hosted its 19th Presentation Dinner in Sydney on Sunday 11 December 2022 at Dar-ul-Islam in Bonnyrigg bringing together its members and invited community leaders.

IFEW Presentation Dinners are organised to develop mutual understanding between IFEW) Australian MEFF Consortium, organisers of the Multicultural Eid Festival and Fair and Seena Incorporated, publishers of AMUST with community leaders in Sydney, with short presentations followed by a dinner in a family atmosphere.

IFEW has been one of the pioneers in establishing daawah, education and welfare activities for the last 40 years in Sydney. Two of its offshoot activities are MEFF festival and AMUST multimedia newspaper.

A number of IFEW members, part of a large extended family led by late Dr Qazi Ashfaq Ahmad OAM have been associated with Islamic activities and multicultural community work in Australia and particularly in Sydney for half a century having founded many community organisations and working in fields of education, daawah, publications, family organisation, student, youth and women’s activities.

This year invited guests included Ms Tu Lee, lawyer, Labor politician and community leader accompanied by her colleague Mr Harry Ly, lawyer, Ms Shaffaq Jaffery, President and colleagues from AusPak Women’s Association (APWA), Mr Nabeel Ansari, Managing Director, Noble Clinical Rehabilitation, and Mr Hanif Bismi, President, MEFF.

The formal program was started of by Mr Zohair Ahmad, IFEW President giving a history of IFEW with the development of the extended family through display of photos and milestones in achievements of IFEW for the last 40 years.

Ms Le together with Mr Ly talked about their various projects and advocacy work in Western Sydney and their close collaboration with Seena and AMUST.

Mr Ansari, an exercise physiologist did a presentation on ‘Exercise Therapy for a Better Quality of Life” and addressed a number of questions from the audience in enhancing physical and mental health.

Mr Hanif Bismi talked about his long association with IFEW members and appreciated their long track record in providing valuable services to the community. He invited all to enthusiastically work for a much bigger and better MEFF in 2023.

Ms Jaffery gave a brief description of activities and services provided by APWA and networking with like minded organisations including IFEW.

Mrs Mehar Ahmad talked about unique projects undertaken by Seena Inc throughout the year including Women’s Retreat, Accessible FunFest, Grandparents Day and its highly successful project AMUST now in its 9th year of production.