RIYADH: The humanitarian efforts of Saudi aid agency KSrelief continue to aid people around the world.
The agency distributed 1,533 cartons of dates to the most vulnerable and displaced families in Kassala, Sudan, benefiting 7,817 people, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday.
In Akkar governorate, Lebanon, the agency’s Al-Amal Charitable Bakery project, which is in its fourth phase this year, saw 150,000 bundles of bread handed out to Syrian and Palestinian refugee families and the host community, benefiting over 125,000 people.
In N’Djamena Bilala and Atia in Chad’s Batha region, KSrelief has distributed 2,500 cartons of dates, benefiting 15,000 individuals.
Its water supply and environmental sanitation project in Al-Khawkhah directorate in Hodeidah, Yemen, has seen the agency pump 637,000 liters of water for domestic use and 623,000 liters of drinking water into tanks, while 42 waste removal operations were carried out in the area’s displacement camps, benefitting 9,800 people.
KSrelief also distributed aid on Friday at a school sheltering displaced persons west of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in coordination with the Palestinian Red Crescent, as part of the campaign to provide relief to the Palestinian people in the enclave.
This aid comes within the framework of the Kingdom’s consistent historical support to the Palestinian people in various humanitarian and relief sectors, and as an embodiment of the great humanitarian role played by Saudi Arabia through KSrelief toward friendly countries in various crises.