McDonald's launches initiative for needy children

McDonald's Saudi Arabia, owned and operated by the Riyadh International Catering Company (RICC) in Central, Eastern and Northern regions of the Kingdom, has launched an ambitious community initiative for needy children. This unique MacDonald's initiative aims to serve and take care of needy children including patients and orphans.
"McDonald's staffers visit the hospitals in different cities including Riyadh, meet child patients and extend all possible help to them under this program," said Waddah Abdul Kader Omran, supervisor of Community Services at McDonald's, in Riyadh. Waddah said that this community program has been especially designed on the instructions of Prince Mishaal Bin Khalid Al-Saud, RICC president.
Referring to the visit to King Salman Hospital in Riyadh under the mandate of the community initiative, Waddah said "we recently visited the hospital, met children and offered support." Waddah also thanked Dr. Abdul Dayem Al-Enzi, hospital's deputy manager, for teaming up with McDonald's to support this community initiative.
He said that Prince Mishaal has always been on the forefront for helping children in need and for exerting efforts to integrate them into the mainstream of Saudi society. In fact, McDonald's has been involved in several community welfare programs in the past also. The RICC donated SR350,000 to the children of Insan Charity Committee for Orphans Care a few years back.
The McDonald's restaurants in Central, Eastern and Northern regions of Saudi Arabia are fully owned and operated by the RICC. The Saudi operations of McDonald's currently employs more than 1,500 Saudi nationals, making the McDonald's the leading quick service restaurant (QSR) staffed by the largest number of Saudi nationals in the Kingdom.
Globally also, McDonald's has been involved in such community welfare programs.