KUWAIT: As theinternational community marks the United Nations' World Humanitarian Day today,the State of Kuwait celebrates the role of their women activists in honor ofthis year's theme 'Women Humanitarians.' In recent history, Kuwait had playedan integral part in launching several humanitarian initiatives to make surethat the suffering and the pain felt by the disadvantaged and the needyworldwide would be lessened.
Since theascension of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah tothe leadership in 2006, Kuwait launched various humanitarian initiatives, whichled to a UN honoring of Kuwait as a global humanitarian center in 2014. The UNalso named His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah as a world humanitarian leader.Kuwait, through His Highness the Amir, also contributed to internationalhumanitarian conferences. In line with the leadership's guidelines, Kuwaitiwomen followed the directives of His Highness the Amir and decided to excel inthe field of humanitarian work.
Helping peopleworldwide
Speaking on thisoccasion, head and founder of 'Al-Nowair' positivity initiative Sheikha IntisarSalem Al-Ali Al-Sabah said that Kuwaitis, especially women, were keen oncontributing solutions to world humanitarian woes, revealing that hernon-profit entity had launched the Intisars Charity Foundation as part of thecollective Kuwaiti effort to help people around the globe. She revealed thatthe foundation has been working in Lebanon launching three projects forrefugees there, adding that the current target was Jordan with programs inSeptember and October.
In regards to theone of the major programs provided by the foundation, Sheikha Intisar said thather entity provided drama psychotherapy, a method of treatment very rare in theArab world. This type of treatment mainly targets those affected by war andconflict, indicated Sheikha Intisar who stressed that the foundation providedthis treatment with utter conviction of its necessity.
Humanitarian arm
Meanwhile,Secretary General of Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Maha Al-Barjas revealedthat the society is the humanitarian arm of the State of Kuwait, distributingnecessities for those who are in need. Kuwaiti men and women alike stronglycontribute to the state humanitarian efforts worldwide under the guidelines setby His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, she affirmed,adding that His Highness the Amir would always march forward when it came tohumanitarian relief aid matters both regionally and globally.
Strong role
In the meantime,the head of a charity project at the 1987-founded International Islamic CharityOrganization (IICO) Sumaiya Al-Maimani stressed the strong role played by womenin Kuwait within the humanitarian field, revealing that the organization hadlaunched various projects around the world to help the needy. One of the majorprojects involved some 6,606 students supporting educational projects in eightcountries, added Maimani.
Around 80 percentof those involved in voluntarily humanitarian work are women from age 18 to 34and that is evident of the role of Kuwaiti women role in helping their fellowhuman beings, affirmed the official. Based on a Swedish-proposed resolution,the World Humanitarian Day is dedicated to the memory of Special Representativeof the Secretary-General to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 of hiscolleagues who were killed in the bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad onAugust 19, 2003 while attending to their humanitarian duties. - KUNA