(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Over four decades, the Kuwait Science Club (KSC) has played a pioneering role, acknowledged on the Gulf, regional and Arab levels since it was set up in August, 1974.
The KSC celebrates on Monday its 40th anniversary, with 30,000 members. The Club is so keen on inculcating the importance of science into the minds of the young, developing their ideas and enhancing their skills.
It aims at prompting them to love knowledge and creativity, to make the best use of their leisure time and turn their power into useful and distinguished work.
The KSC receives up to 3,000 people under 18 every summer, and offers them scientific expertise covering all fields in a simplified way at the hands of specialists, Chairman Eyad Al-Kharafi told KUNA.
In addition, the Club organizes various events on science, scientists and Kuwaiti innovators in addition to courses on photography and memorizing the Holy Quran, for all ages.
Al-Kharafi added that the KSC has the first voluntary diving team in Kuwait, formed in Kuwait after the end of the Iraqi invasion, to pick out remnants of war in the sea, such as barbed wires, vessels and sea mines. Over a short time, the team managed to pick out 172 ships and yachts, which weighed thousands of tonnes and contained 40,000 gallons of harmful oil.
The KSC has also made a success in the field of coral reefs farming, developing natural coral reefs in an artificial colony in Kuwait.
It is a unique achievement lauded by experts, and can offer a good solution to the problem of dying out coral reefs in the world.
For his part, the KSC secretary general, Ali Al-Gomaa told KUNA that they are working on future scientific plans that focus on developing scientific workshops inside the Club, through modern techniques, besides using new curriculum acknowledged internationally.
He also revealed that the KSC intends to open up fresh channels for cooperation with the various state institutions, especially scientific ones.
According to Al-Gomaa, the KSC is working on opening new departments to serve young men and women over 18, as part of the efforts to develop their mental and intellectual abilities for the benefit of the society.
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