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Saudi Aramco Launches Olfa Animal Welfare

Olfa will focus on sheltering animals, providing veterinary care, reducing uncontrolled reproduction, and promoting community awareness of animal welfare - Aramco logo/File Photo
Olfa will focus on sheltering animals, providing veterinary care, reducing uncontrolled reproduction, and promoting community awareness of animal welfare - Aramco logo/File Photo
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Saudi Aramco Launches Olfa Animal Welfare

Olfa will focus on sheltering animals, providing veterinary care, reducing uncontrolled reproduction, and promoting community awareness of animal welfare - Aramco logo/File Photo
Olfa will focus on sheltering animals, providing veterinary care, reducing uncontrolled reproduction, and promoting community awareness of animal welfare - Aramco logo/File Photo

Saudi Aramco has launched Olfa Animal Welfare, a non-profit company dedicated to improving the lives of stray animals in Saudi Arabia, SPA reported.
According to an Aramco press release, Olfa will focus on sheltering animals, providing veterinary care, reducing uncontrolled reproduction, and promoting community awareness of animal welfare. The company aims to contribute to the Kingdom's efforts to treat animals with compassion and respect, in line with Islamic teachings.
In its initial partnership with the Eastern Region Municipality, Olfa will collaborate on various animal care initiatives. These include stabilizing animal populations, improving reporting systems for stray animals, establishing care and rehabilitation centers, and enhancing community education on responsible pet ownership.
The release said that Olfa will begin operations by launching mobile veterinary clinics in the Eastern Region to offer essential services such as examinations, vaccinations, and sterilization. The company plans to open its first animal shelter in Dammam in 2025.
Aramco Executive Vice President for Human Resources and Corporate Services Nabeel A. Al-Jama' emphasized the company's commitment to social responsibility and its desire to support community efforts in animal welfare in the Eastern Region and the Kingdom as a whole.

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World Tango Stars Take the Stage at Argentine Competition 

Fatima Caracoch and Lucas Brenno Marquez from Buenos Aires hold up their trophies after winning the salon category finals of the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP)
Fatima Caracoch and Lucas Brenno Marquez from Buenos Aires hold up their trophies after winning the salon category finals of the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP)
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World Tango Stars Take the Stage at Argentine Competition 

Fatima Caracoch and Lucas Brenno Marquez from Buenos Aires hold up their trophies after winning the salon category finals of the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP)
Fatima Caracoch and Lucas Brenno Marquez from Buenos Aires hold up their trophies after winning the salon category finals of the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP)

Every night in Buenos Aires, cozy clubs and cavernous halls fill with dancers from around the world who cling to one another in the embrace of Argentine tango, gliding in sync to plaintive tunes of nostalgia, loss and love.

Tango's spotlight moved to the stage this week, as several hundred competitors vied for the world's top titles at the annual Buenos Aires Tango Festival and Competition, which was attended by 10,000 spectators on Tuesday's closing night.

With a record 750 couples from 53 countries, the competition showcased the universal appeal of a dance style that originated among sailors and immigrants in the ports of Argentina and Uruguay around the early 1900s, with roots also in African rhythms.

"Tango unifies everything," said one of the event presenters. "In times of global division, what is better than embracing one another?"

Argentina is revered as the world's hub for tango music and dancing, both in social clubs and in glitzy stage shows.

The participants hailed from places as far flung as Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, the United States and Ukraine.

But the top honors went to Argentineans.

Ayelen Morando broke into tears and her partner Sebastian Martinez fell to his knees as their names were called as winners of the show tango category.

"This is years of effort, of work, of dreaming, and not giving up," Morando later told reporters, still in the black velvet dress and bejeweled collar she had performed in.

Fatima Caracoch and Brenno Marques fiercely hugged as they won for salon tango.

"It's a mix of feelings, of happiness, of ecstasy, and of achieving an incredible dream," Marques said.