(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) said that due to current crisis in the region and in many Arab countries, particularly Iraq and Kurdistan region, "we all are facing millions of children as refugees." In a statement to KUNA, Deputy Chairman Anwar Al-Hasawi said these children and their families became refugees, escaping the ongoing armed clashes, leaving behind their basic needs, notably their school education, which is one of their principal rights.
Al-Hasawi added that a new health aid campaign, in cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of Health, will be launched in all Iraqi provinces, for providing necessities for the displaced, including shelter, in response to wishes of His Highness the Amir of Kuwait, and as part of Kuwait's ongoing humanitarian efforts "to aid to brothers in Iraq." Al-Hasawi noted that KRCS's role was to respond swiftly to children's needs and humanitarian requirements in Iraq.
The official added that during a tour by a KRCS team grouping leaders and activists to refugee camps in Arbil, they witnessed desperate need for care and protection particularly among the children, as well as lack of proper health and educational facilities in and outside the refugee camps.
In recent days, the KRCS started carrying out the initial phase of a KD 200-million humanitarian campaign, launched to help the refugees in Iraq's Kurdistan.
The campaign, the biggest aid campaign as of today, is carried out in collaboration with Barazani Charity Foundation. It will give out food items to more than 26,000 displaced families in Harsham refugee camp in Kurdistan.
The first phase of this aid campaign will include distribution of food items, Al-Hasawi noted.
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