KUWAIT: The charity funding project to help needy students in the Ministry of Education ended with the registration of about 20,000 students (bedoons and expatriates). These names will be reviewed to ensure their conditions and their needs. The Ministry of Education received applications from people who needed the fund. Registration ended last month and was in two stages. The first stage was for stateless students, and the second was for expatriates.

The sources said that the competent charitable fund committee began preparing the names of students who failed to pay their fees. The sources indicated that the disbursement mechanism will not be open but is subject to a specific budget for the fund (worth up to five million dinars). The charitable fund was established first to follow up on the needs of stateless students in cooperation with the Central Agency to address the situation of illegal residents, and it was expanded so as to assist international students who are in dire need.