Within a small reception ceremony held at the Italian Embassy in Jabriya, the Ambassador Carlo Baldocci, on behalf of the President of the Republic of Italy, awarded Fareah Al-Saqqaf the award of "Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy". In attendance were a number of LOYAC's and LAPA's board members, as well as Loyac's youth members.

The ceremony included a speech by the Ambassador, in which he expressed his gratitude and appreciation for the efforts of Fareah Al-Saqqaf during her career since the establishment of LOYAC and her great efforts in strengthening the cultural and sports cooperation represented by the football school AC Milan, which she sought to establish with her team since 2009, which achieved remarkable success and became the most distinguished among football schools in Kuwait.

Ambassador Baldocci expressed his deep impression and admiration for Al-Saqqaf's interaction and sympathy with the tragic situation that Italy experienced due to the Corona pandemic in March 2020. He said: "Al-Saqqaf showed great sympathy with the suffering of the Italian people, and she responded to our idea of collecting messages from Kuwaitis in the Italian language that support the Italian people in their ordeal.

Her response was quick and enthusiastic in a way that exceeded our expectations, as she was able to collect a large number of supportive and sympathetic messages from different spectrums of the Kuwaiti and Arab people and from different age groups in a very short time. The video that we published with her help achieved great success and spread because of its spontaneity and honesty.

As for Christiana Baldocci, the Ambassador's wife, she said that from the first moment she visited LOYAC and met Al-Saqqaf, she felt the familiarity and belonging that she even volunteered at the FAD Arts Festival. She added: "What LAPA is doing under the leadership of Al-Saqqaf is a great work, and my experience with LAPA was unique and enjoyable. Al-Saqqaf is very interested in building bridges between cultures and she always looks forward to projects that bring the East and the West closer, which is what we also look forward to".

In her reply to the Ambassador's speech, Al-saqqaf expressed her appreciation and gratitude for the initiative of the Ambassador to nominate her for this reward, and her thanks for the President of the Republic of Italy for awarding her this reward, she said: "I thank Ambassador Carlo Baldocci for nominating me, and I also thank the President of the Republic for this appreciation that I would like to dedicate to every member of the Loyac family, both present and absent, because this appreciation is for all of them, as each of them had a role in our success in strengthening the Italian-Kuwaiti relations". "There are still a lot of projects that we planned before the pandemic and that stopped because of it, but we are determined to implement them as soon as we return to normal life", she added.