The Ministry of Interior (MoI) will send a group of selected staff members from different departments on Umrah as it has done in previous years.
As part of preparations for the journey, the organising committee held an introductory meeting for the participants at the MoI’s Al Bidda Auditorium last week.
The programme was attended by Umrah pilgrimage superviser Maj Hussain Aman al-Ali, administrative and financial in-charge Capt Nasser Abdullah Mohamed and Islamic preacher Sheikh Ahmad Ziyad from the Ministry of Awqaf.
A total of 50 employees have been selected for the trip this year.
Maj al-Ali welcomed participants of the Umrah pilgrimage, who were selected in view of their outstanding performance and service, and stressed that the objective of the mission is to spread the spirit of love and brotherhood among the ministry’s staff and give them the opportunity to visit the Holy Land and identify the most important and prominent Islamic legacies.
Capt Mohamed said organising the Umrah trip for individuals with distinguished performance, from among the male and female staff members of the MoI, has become an annual tradition as the ministry considers it as a kind of recognition for those employees. He explained that the candidates for Umrah are nominated on the basis of certain criteria stipulated by a committee.
