Tamilnadu Engineers Forum (TEF) - Kuwait honoured K. Mathi, with the “Excellence in Social Responsibility” award during the Technological Innovations conference and Exhibition – virtual conference held on 11th November 2021.
Mathi provides his assistance/support for the needy Indian Nationals in coordination with Indian embassy to provide the required help in a possible way.
All those years Mathi has extended his help mainly for the people in distress like stranded workers/maids, poor and sick labourers in need of medical attention, families of persons died in Kuwait who does not have the proper knowledge / support in the state of Kuwait where there are limited opportunities for the expatriates. He has been rendering all these assistance within the local laws. He is dedicative and happy to serve the community on his free time.
One of the biggest achievements by Mathi is to suspend the execution of 2 Indian nationals sentenced to death in Kuwait at the last movement, with the help of Indian Embassy. Both of them got released and repatriated back to India and happily joined with their family after spending life for a decade in Kuwait Jail.
During the last year pandemic situation Mr. Mathi was assisting with the help of Indian Embassy for some of the stranded people in Kuwait who were pregnant and sick, to return back to India through the Vande Bharat mission.
On recognizing his efforts and services to the community TEF-Kuwait honoured him with “Excellence in Social Responsibility” award and this is the first time TEF is honouring a person with Excellence award for the Social Service category.
Upon receiving the award Mr. Mathi thanked the TEF committee for his nomination and the award. He also thanked Indian Embassy for all the support, Indian Frontliners (IFL) for giving the opportunity to serve and the Indian Associations in Kuwait who were behind all his efforts.