Kuwait- KRCS spares no effort to help Syrian refugees
Date
3/11/2016 4:24:34 AM
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) By Arwa Al-Wugayyan
KUWAIT March 11 (KUNA) -- Since the eruption of the Syrian crisis in March 2011 the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) has spared no effort offering aid to those forced to abandon their homeland and flee the war to neighboring countries.
Over the past five years the society has been providing relief aid to meet the needs of the refugees and alleviate their sufferings.
In addition the assistance to the refugees has been extended to include education opportunities for children.
Refugees' sufferings have been aggravated in host states like Jordan and Lebanon which are facing hard economic conditions and cannot even grant job opportunities for their people; how can they offer dignified living conditions for the guests? The KRCS has offered up to 25000 school bags to Syrian pupils in Jordan besides opening a dentistry clinic KRCS Media Officer Khalid Al-Zaid told KUNA. The society has also paid education fees for 16000 university students in the Hashemite Kingdom.
In addition the society presented five infant incubators to the Jordanian Red Crescent Hospital in Amman and paid USD 500000 so that Syrian patients especially children can receive free medical care he added.
The society has also paid for the restoration of two old schools where more than 1400 Syrian students are educated besides circumcising 3000 children in Al-Zaatari refugee camp.
According to Al-Zaid in 2014 up to 306000 tons of food stuff clothes and medical supplies were sent to the refugees in cooperation with the Jordanian Red Crescent.
He said that more than 21000 Syrian families benefited from a bread project the KRCS launched in the Kingdom.
In 2015 290000 tons of food stuff and medical supplies were distributed on the refugees in Jordan together with supporting the Jordanian Red Crescent Hospital with UDD 500000. Spring clothes were offered to 400 refugee families.
Very recently the KRCS paid for implanting a cochlea for an eight-year old Syrian girl Asayel enabling her to hear the voices of her parents and her four brothers and sisters for the first time since her birth.
Kuwait's Ambassador in Amman Hamad Al-Duaij visited Asayel in hospital after she was operated on.
Following the operation the KRCS helped Asayel receive three-month training on hearing and utterance at a specialized center.
According to Al-Zaid the KRCS is working on lists of similar cases to be treated in the future.
In the same context the society has drawn up a plan to provide treatment to cancer patients in cooperation with King Hussein Cancer Center in the Jordanian capital he said.
Al-Zaid stressed that the KRCS humanitarian efforts came in response to directives by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. (end) akw.msa
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