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Qatar launched Hayyoh on Sunday, a new national initiative designed to boost fan engagement and participation in sporting events.The launch press conference outlined how the Hayyoh platform works, rewarding the public for attending eligible sporting events by awarding points and allowing them to advance through membership tiers. Users can then redeem their accumulated points for a range of rewards, offers and experiences from Hayyoh’s network of partners.The Hayyoh experience is built around a simple concept: buying a ticket, attending an eligible sporting event, and earning 1,000 Hayyoh points for each event attended.Users can redeem their accumulated points for a diverse range of exclusive rewards, offers and experiences provided by Hayyoh’s partner network.The platform also enables users to progress through five membership tiers that reflect their level of activity and continued participation. The tiers begin with Member, followed by Bronze, Silver and Gold, and culminate in Platinum, the highest tier.Registration and membership in Hayyoh are free of charge for Qatari citizens and residents of the State of Qatar who hold a valid Qatar ID. Young people aged 12 to 17 may also participate through a dedicated account, subject to the consent of a parent or legal guardian. This helps encourage children and young people to engage with sport and attend sporting events from an early age.The platform has been designed to deliver a simple and integrated digital experience. Through a single account, users can discover eligible events, track their participation, points balance and membership tier, and view and redeem the available rewards, offers and experiences.Hayyoh’s partner network is a key component of the platform, providing the rewards, offers and experiences that users can redeem with their accumulated points. The platform said it remains open to adding more partners in the future, expanding and diversifying the benefits available to users..Hayyoh places fans at the heart of the sporting experience by turning attendance into an ongoing journey of participation, engagement and rewards. The initiative seeks to foster a stronger and more lasting connection between fans and sport while encouraging greater attendance at a wide range of sporting events. Source link
Severe monsoon flooding has swamped villages and paddy fields in central Myanmar, forcing people out of their homes including those already displaced by war, an AFP reporter and the UN said.”The suffering we are facing, I can’t even put into words how painful it is,” said Cho Myint, a 53-year-old villager from Wetlet township in the central Sagaing region.Standing by an upturned boat, she told AFP on Friday that her family had been forced to flee rising floodwaters and was “left with nothing”.The UN on Friday said that since July, severe monsoon flooding in Sagaing, Rakhine, Irrawaddy and Kachin states has affected an estimated 390,000 people — 230,000 in Sagaing alone.The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the numbers included people affected by the civil war triggered by Myanmar’s 2021 military coup.U Sint, another villager from Wetlet township, said some war refugees in the area lived in small, temporary shelters that were “completely submerged”.”They couldn’t save anything. It is really terrible,” he said.The floods had also “ruined” many people’s livelihoods, he added.”The rice seedlings have already been swept away… In this area, it’s simply impossible to plant paddy anymore,” he told AFP.”Even if we were to sow seeds again, the land hasn’t emerged yet.”Myanmar’s Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement said that as of August 11, heavy rainfall and river flooding in Sagaing had forced more than 11,400 people from 3,220 households to relocate to flood relief centres.In Wetlet, Aung Ko stayed behind with his brother-in-law to look after their cow, saying only about 10 or 14 people remained.They have been living on an upper floor of their home under tarpaulins and surviving on instant noodles and bottled water provided by local rescuers visiting by boat.”Before the donors came, we had no choice but to take floodwater and boil it to drink,” he said, standing in knee-high muddy waters.OCHA spokesman Pierre Peron told AFP on Friday that the organisation had no figures yet for the number of people displaced by the heavy rains.But “with ongoing monsoon rainfall and several major rivers at or above danger levels, we unfortunately estimate that the impact of the flooding will continue in coming days and weeks”.UN partners were mobilising to help the most vulnerable, he said, yet the “flood damage to homes, shelters, infrastructure and farmland has exacerbated humanitarian needs, particularly for food, health services, safe water and livelihood support”.While seasonal monsoon brings rainfall that farmers depend on, climate change is making the phenomenon more erratic, unpredictable and deadly across the region. Source link
