KUWAIT: The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed a grant agreement worth two million dollars with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to support the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh on Thursday. In a statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), Acting Director General of the Fund Waleed Al-Bahar said that the Fund’s goals are to improve the lives, security and health of the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

These efforts will be done by providing essential building materials to reinforce their homes as well as liquefied petroleum gas for cooking to around 18,000 families for a 12-month period, noting that the agreement will reach around 140,000 individuals, he added. This contribution is the sixth between the Fund and UNHCR in humanitarian support and the first to support the Rohingya in Bangladesh, adding that the total grants provided to UNHCR since the start in 2016 amount to about $22 million, Al-Bahar pointed out.

KUWAIT: Acting Director General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development Waleed Al-Bahar and Representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kuwait Nisreen Rabian sign a grant agreement. – KUNA photos

For her part, UNHCR Representative to Kuwait Nisreen Rabiaan said that the Fund is a permanent partner of the Commission through it signing several previous agreements to support refugees in various areas around the world. She thanked Kuwait and the Kuwaiti Fund for their continued support of refugee cases around the world. — KUNA