Kuwait stresses ‘commitment’ to UN emergency fund contributions
Kuwaiti charities provide food, psychological help for Syrians in Turkey
NEW YORK, Dec 9, (KUNA): Kuwait on Saturday affirmed the provision of $1 million to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for 2019, as part of its ongoing contributions to the fund, said a Kuwaiti official.
This came during a speech of Kuwait’s permanent mission to the UN delivered by First Secretary Jawaher Ibrahim Al-Duaij Al-Sabah during a high-level annual ceremony on offering pledges to the fund.
At a time when there are growing conflicts and natural disasters all over the world, Kuwait reiterated the importance of enhancing international cooperation and unified efforts, she said.
She emphasized that increased conflicts and disasters necessitate doubling efforts, and promoting cooperation and partnership.
She called for sharing burdens and responsibilities with the aim of providing humanitarian aid to affected people and save lives as soon as possible.
This cooperation is out of Kuwait’s belief in the key role of CERF which has managed since 2006 to respond to several pressing humanitarian cases in more than 101 countries, the Kuwaiti official made clear.
She highly commended naming chairman of Kuwait Red Crescent Society Dr Hilal Al-Sayer as a member of the fund’s consultative team, in recognition of Kuwait’s leading role in humanitarian action.
Meanwhile, relief teams of Kuwaiti Al-Najat Charity and the Human Rights Center of the Kuwaiti Bar Association have been touring Syrian refugee camps in southern Turkey to hand out humanitarian aid and offer psychological help to traumatized children.
The teams toured Harran and Akcakale’s Suleiman Shah refugee camps, in the southern Turkish province of Sanliurfa, where they holed out 180 and 170 food baskets respectively to displaced Syrian families there.
They also visited orphanages and schools to provided the desperately need mental and psychological help and counseling to children who are suffering from post-traumatized stress disorder and other mental problems caused the ordeal they underwent due to the war in their home country.
“We were keen on bringing happiness and drawing smiles on the face of orphans who suffered from the loss of their parents or one of them and their loved ones as well as the sense of alienation after leaving their home country,” head of the resources and media department at Al-Najat Charity Omar Al-Thowayni told KUNA Saturday.
He pointed out that the teams had held several entertainment activities, competitions and handed out prizes to children, especially orphans
“We also distributed monthly benefits,” he said, adding that those activities were warmly welcomed by the children.
Al-Thowayni noted the teams had visited an orphanage financed by Al-Najat to cater for 100 Syrian girls.
They also visited several schools, which were built by Al-Najat, to offer educational services to 2,500 Syrian child refugees in Turkey.