KUWAIT: KuwaitRed Crescent Society (KRCS) announced yesterday distribution of 2,300 foodparcels to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in coordination with Bangladesh RedCrescent Society. Each portion, handed over to a five-member family, issufficient for two weeks, said Anwar Al-Hasawi, the KRCS Deputy Chairman andhead of the society field team in Bangladesh.
He added thatKRCS is continuing relief operations for the Rohingya either in coordinationwith local and international associations or directly by volunteers who havebeen doing their best to make sure that the aid supplies are delivered to thosein need. The KRCS team has inspected refugees' conditions in the region ofCox's Bazar and a makeshift hospital built with contributions by the Kuwaiti,Bangladeshi and Qatari red crescents.
He has underlinednecessity of the mission to asses needs of the refugees in general, thechildren, elderly and those of special needs in particular. More than 700,000Muslim Rohingya have fled persecution in Myanmar to neighboring Bangladeshsince 2016. Kuwait has dispatched batches of aid to the refugees, bulk of whomlive in squalid conditions.
In other news,Kuwaiti relief aid bodies operating in Yemen pledged to provide continuingassistance across the country worth a total $2.3 million amid talks with otherassistance-providing Gulf countries on Thursday. The attending bodies at themeeting, held at the Riyadh-based King Salman Humanitarian Aid and ReliefCenter, were Kuwait's Foreign Ministry, KRCS and the Kuwait Relief Society. Inthe first half of 2019, some 309,000 Yemenis benefited from campaigns launchedby KRCS, according to Abdulsalam Baaboud, member of the Yemeni Higher ReliefCommittee. These campaigns, worth a collective $3.3 million, have targetedsectors, such as food, education and water, he said. - KUNA