DOHA: The Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) announced on Monday that they donated $500,000 to help out the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS). This came in a statement to KUNA from the Deputy Chairman of KRCS Anwar Al-Hasawi, after being in a consultative meeting with ARCS partners and humanitarian organizations in Doha. The meeting was organized by the Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) with the help of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Al-Hasawi revealed that a separate meeting with the president of ARCS Mawlawi Matiul Haq took place, during which the dire need to help Afghans was explained, in view of the difficult humanitarian situation there regarding their health, relief and education. 13,000 children suffer from a septal defect and more than three million widows due to the wars Afghanistan has been through, not to mention the number of Afghan refugees coming in from Iran and Pakistan, who are estimated at more than six million people. The meeting is scheduled to conclude on Monday after hearing important recommendations from ambassadors and diplomatic representatives to examine the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and find the best way to deliver aid to those in need.

Relief aid for Armenians

In another development, the Kuwait Red Crescent Society announced on Monday that it provided relief aid to 400 people in the city of Sevan, northern Armenia. The head of the association’s field team, Khaled Al-Mutairi, told KUNA that the distribution of aid comes within the KRCS’s relief campaign to help needy and displaced people from the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The food parcels, sufficient for one family of five, were distributed for a month, in addition to blankets, heaters, and cleaning supplies, he said.

He stressed the keenness of the KRCS to deliver humanitarian aid in various Armenian regions in cooperation with the Armenian Red Cross. Al-Mutairi expressed his hope that the association’s campaign would contribute to alleviating the suffering of hundreds of needy and displaced people, especially since the campaign primarily targets the elderly and the most vulnerable groups. 

KRCS is carrying out its humanitarian duty to relieve the afflicted as an embodiment of Kuwait’s continued keenness to help those in need in various parts of the world, he added. The Kuwait Red Crescent Society launched last Saturday a humanitarian aid campaign to help more than 1,500 people in need in various regions of Armenia.— KUNA