RIYADH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has stepped up assistance programs in Yemen, Lebanon, Somalia and Bangladesh with food aid and medical projects.
KSrelief recently distributed 80,250 kg of food baskets in Yemen’s Taiz governorate, benefiting 4,500 individuals. The center also distributed 85,600 kg of food baskets in the Marib governorate, benefiting 4,800 needy persons.
KSrelief also distributed 107 tons of food baskets to needy people in the Shabwah governorate, benefiting 6,000 people.
These efforts are part of a relief operation to distribute 19,2000 food baskets weighing more than 20,000 tons to struggling citizens in 15 of Yemen’s 20 governorates.

KSrelief has also continued rolling out water supply and environmental projects in the Hodeidah governorate. In one week, more than 367,500 liters of drinking water and more than 406,000 liters of non-potable water was pumped into tanks across the region.
Yemen is among the top beneficiaries of KSrelief’s assistance programs. The center has implemented 724 projects in Yemen worth more than $4.1 billion.
Meanwhile, KSrelief continues to distribute the third phase of bread charity to refugees in Lebanon’s Akkar governorate and Al-Minya district.
Some 20,000 bundles of bread are being distributed every day to 10,000 needy Syrian and Palestinian refugee families.
The KSrelief-funded ambulance service of Subul Al-Salam Social Society in the Miniyeh region, in the country’s north, carried out 63 emergency missions during the last week.
The missions included transporting patients to and from hospitals and providing ambulance services to those injured in traffic accidents in the city of Miniyeh.
In Somalia, KSrelief distributed 4,000 food baskets to displaced people and those affected by drought in Jubaland state, benefiting 24,000 individuals.
The minister of humanitarian affairs and disaster management of Jubaland state, Ahmed Hassan Omar, expressed his thanks and appreciation to King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for standing by the people of Somalia.
In Bangladesh, KSrelief’s medical team has successfully performed as many as 373 eye surgeries in the province of Nojan. In four days, 5,500 persons had eye tests, and 1,691 medical glasses were distributed.