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After hard but joyful collective work in the spirit of friendship and goodness, it is now time for us to donate, as promised, some of our proceedings to people in need.

This year we have organised two major events, the International Family Fair and the Spring Market. Part of the money we raised goes towards improving our school facilities and the other part goes to local charities.

The cheque will be handed over today by The Friends of the BSB at Cafe Ceramique. We have invited parents from the BSB (British School of Bahrain) to join us for this occasion. We will also work together to create a collage of tiles that we will use as an artistic frame for a plaque identifying our playground equipment as something donated by the Friends of BSB!

Mariyana Zaharieva,

by email.

Excellent GulfWeekly coverage of the F1, specifically the teams and drivers guide – it was very helpful. I actually carried it around with me at the circuit – thanks for that!

Noora Smith,

by email.

I was interested to read in last week’s GulfWeekly that the winner of the Eruditely Esquires coffee quiz was won by a visitor to Bahrain who could not claim his prize, but it didn’t say where he is from.

B Smiley, Saar.

Editor’s note: We published Taha Ercoskun’s name online at www.gulfweekly.com as requested so he could share his moment of fame with his friends. The 16-year-old is from Ankara, Turkey.

I’M finding it very sad driving past Saar village every morning taking my child to St Christopher’s School and seeing the paint splashed walls and black soot of burned tyres on the road.

Is there nothing we could do as an expat community to work with our neighbours and help them enhance their surroundings?

I was thinking of rallying together some artists and like-minded friends to work with local youths. Graffiti need not be abusive – it can be invigorating and exciting.

Saddened expat,

Janabiyah.