KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) announced on Wednesday the orphan sponsorship project in Gaza in coordination and cooperation with the Wafaa Capacity Building and Microfinance. The Secretary-General of KRCS, Maha Al-Barjas, stated to KUNA after her meeting with a delegation from the Wafa Foundation at the society’s headquarters that the project aims to provide social, educational, and health care for orphaned children who have lost their families by creating suitable environmental conditions for their upbringing.

Al-Barjas added that the society will market the project to donors interested in sponsoring orphans, indicating that the society seeks to sponsor 1,000 orphans from the Gaza Strip. She explained that society seeks to provide psychological and moral support to these children, in addition to providing food, drink and clothing.

She mentioned that KRCS has been keen on providing all relief and medical assistance to the Palestinians since the beginning of the Zionist occupation’s attacks on the Gaza Strip. On his part, Muhaisen Atawneh, Wafa Director General and the relief project implementer, expressed his thanks and appreciation to KRCS for the orphan care project in Gaza, noting that the association did not hesitate to support Palestine in all ways and means.

Atawneh said that this project is an extension of Kuwait’s humanitarian and developmental contributions to supporting Palestinian orphans, praising Kuwait’s leading role in caring for orphans worldwide. He added that the Zionist aggression continues in Gaza, leaving thousands of orphans without families in a besieged sector devoid of life’s simplest necessities, explaining that comprehensive services will be provided to orphans to enable them to live with dignity and become active individuals in their communities, building a better future for them. — KUNA