KRCS has provided humanitarian aid to 80 nations since inception
Kuwait sympathizes with Yazidis killed by IS militants
BAGHDAD, April 19, (KUNA): The Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) has offered humanitarian aid to more than 80 countries, including Iraq, Yemen and Syria, since its establishment in 1966, said a senior official of KRCS on Wednesday.
Mosaed Al-Enezi, head of the society’s legal and donors affairs department, made the statement to KUNA today, on the sidelines of the participation of KRCS’ delegation in the 10th conference of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) hosted by Baghdad.
The society is offering its assistance through donors in order to address the ongoing crises in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Africa’s countries, in addition to support to Rohingya minority refugees of Myanmar, he noted.
The aid provided to Iraq over the last three years exceeded $10 million, he said, indicating that the society has been communicating with other humanitarian organizations inside Iraq to offer humanitarian projects and relief aid to Iraqis across the country.
Al-Enezi lauded the role of Kuwait Embassy in Baghdad in backing the society’s action in Iraq and facilitating its humanitarian duties.
He revealed that the KRCS’s participation in the conference aims to set plans of the upcoming period so as to ensure the best ways for the protection of donors and paying attention to humanitarian aspects amid conditions the region has been going through.
The conference is attracting some representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Arab Red Crescent and Red Cross Organization (ARCO) as well as a number of UN humanitarian agencies, and some regional and Arab humanitarian institutions.
The two-day conference discusses some issues pertaining to the protection of donors and how to help them work during the conflicts as well as some legal and procedural topics.
Meanwhile, Kuwait’s Consul General Omar Al-Kanderi on Wednesday expressed the country’s sympathy for the Yazidis who were killed or suffered from the so-called Islamic State (IS) when its militants invaded their regions in 2014.
In a statement to KUNA, AlKanderi said during his visit to leader of Yazidis that “the Yazidi community is dear to us and has made many contributions to all fields”.
He noted that His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Nadia Murad, a Yazidi survivor from IS militants, in 2016.
She was a good ambassador of Yazidis to explain their suffering from IS acts, which were condemned and denounced by Kuwait and the Kuwaitis, he elaborated.
Thousands of Yazidis are celebrating “Red Wednesday”, the
day that marks the beginning of the new year in the Yazidi calendar.
According to unofficial statistics, Yazidis are more than one million residing in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region and
Nineveh province as well as countries like Turkey, Syria, Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and others.
The IS militants kidnapped thousands of Yazidi girls and women after they invaded
Sinjar town in Nineveh in 2014.
They were taken to Mosul, Raqqa and areas under the IS’ control and forced to marry its militants or were sold in the slave trade.