KUWAIT: Kuwaitihumanitarian and welfare associations are helping low-income families withdonations at launch of the new scholastic season where financial burdens onthem noticeably pile up. As regularly each year, Kuwait Red Crescent Society(KRCS) has distributed 2,000 school bags, stationary and uniforms for childrenof these families. KRCS Chairman Dr Hilal Al-Sayer said in a statement that thesociety would continue aiding these families in future years.
Almostsimultaneously, the society has launched the project, "donate to educatethem," to aid students - for the sixth year in a row. The KRCS deputychairman, Anwar Al-Hasawi, said in a statement, on margins of launching thecampaign at 360 Mall, that the society would cover school fees for 5,000students. Last year, the society paid the school fees for 4,260 students,including 22 ones of special needs, he said.
In Sudan, theInternational Al-Rahma Organization distributed aid to people affected with thefloods in Khartoum's suburbs. Up to 1,000 food parcels were distributed topeople stricken with the catastrophe. Moreover, the KRCS executed during Augusta number of multifaceted humanitarian projects in the war-torn country of Yemen,said an official. KRCS Director General Abdulrahman Al-Oun revealed that theproject - carried out in coordination with Yemen's Estijaba (response) network- provided necessary medical equipment and water resources to the Yemenipeople.
Fifteen incubatorswere provided to a number of hospitals in Yemen with 5,670 premature babiesbenefiting from the medical apparatus, Oun noted, adding that water wells werealso dug in Yemen's Sah city offering clean water to 1,320 people. He furtherindicated that the KRCS also carried out Eid Udhiya (sacrificial meat) projectsin the several towns and cities in Yemen, benefiting 4,266 people. Acornerstone for a well project in Marib city was set, Oun pointed out, sayingthat 3,500 families will benefit from the well. Meanwhile, the KRCS DirectorGeneral called on those eager to do more good for the Yemeni people to continueproviding a helping hand, stressing that their contributions were important.
Meanwhile inAnkara, Turkey, the Kuwaiti urologist Dr Faisal Al-Hajeri said that he andanother Kuwaiti surgeon, Dr Azzam Al-Zair, conducted seven surgical operationsfor Syrian refugees in the Turkish towns of Reyhanli and Hatay in two days.Among the Syrians who underwent operations were two children, injured duringthe war in their home country, he said. The two Kuwaiti doctors along with DrAbdullah Al-Nuaimi from Qatar have also examined 20 patients of various ages.Kuwait has been regularly aiding a large numbers of the Syrian refugees atTurkish cities and shanty towns. - KUNA