King’s gesture toward Syrian refugees

Saudi Arabia’s national campaign in support 2 Syrians recently launched a project to provide shelter to 1,000 Syrian families who fled the war-torn country to take shelter in Lebanon.
The project is being implemented on the directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and directly supervised by Interior Minister Prince Muhammad bin Naif and Saa’id Al-Urabi Al-Harthi, the general director of the campaign.
Waleed Al-Jalal, director of the campaign office in Lebanon, said: “The campaign office conducted a field study of displaced Syrians who arrived to the country in view of the increasing number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. These include people with special needs, widows, other women without providers, families of martyrs, injured persons, elders and children. The study resulted in developing a housing project to lodge 1,000 families throughout Lebanon.”
He explained that the office has rented 560 apartments in the first phase of the project out of 1,000 apartments that are urgently needed to lodge the displaced.
Al-Jalal said that 560 checks were handed over to the landlords of properties so they could lease them to displaced Syrian families in Beirut, Bekaa and Mount Lebanon. “This project comes within the objectives of the national campaign to secure decent housing for families in Syria,” he said.
“The campaign included other efforts, such as the distribution of food, blankets and other supplies.”
He pointed out that this project is an extension of a series of projects adopted by the national campaign to meet the needs of displaced Syrians. “The donations being made reflect our religious, moral and humanitarian duty toward the Syrian people and reflects the extent of coherence and cohesion between the people of the two countries,” he said.