Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society in wide-scale action to relieve Syrians
A team of Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) led by Chairman Dr Hilal Al-Sayer has been engaged in a variety of activities to support refugees and displaced from the war-ravaged neighboring country Syria.
The programed activities included hand-over of food supplies to Syrians who have been relocated to the province of Idlib, signing a number of cooperation accords with Turkish and Qatari relief associations. The KRCS was the first philanthropic association to reach the displaced in the Idlib countryside and deliver relief aid to them, as part of the campaign ‘Cry of Aleppo.’
The Kuwaiti society’s field team, in coordination with the Qatari Red Crescent Society, has distributed 500 food parcels, mattresses, child clothes and heating fuel to those who have taken refuge in Idlib, fleeing Aleppo and other regions in the country. The KRCS has dispatched 20 truckloads of humanitarian supplies, including mobile clinics, from the border Turkish town of Gaziantep.
The wide-scale relief program included cooperation accords, valued at $2.4 million, with the Qatari society, to provide relief and medical supplies to Syrians in need, three cooperation agreements, worth $390,000, with a Turkish relief association in Calis for the same purpose, in addition to another accord with the Turkish Red Crescent in Gaziantep to examine relief projects for Syrians who came from eastern Aleppo.
Furthermore, the society has provided backing for an orphanage house in Gaziantep. Dr Sayer himself had personally performed a surgery on a two-year-old Syrian child in Hatay. The Kuwaiti relief team is pursuing activities in the Syrian-Turkish border region, helping the refugees and organizing delivery of much needed supplies to Syrians struggling to survive.
Distinguished roles
On Friday, Dr Sayer extolled efforts by humanitarian organizations aiming to aid the Syrians displaced from eastern Aleppo. Speaking before of leaving Gaziantep airport in eastern Turkey, he said KRCS, Qatar Red Crescent Society and Turkey’s IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation had played distinguished roles in providing humanitarian aid to Syrians either inside or outside the country. KRCS made a humanitarian example through offering aid to the displaced Syrians that includes food, health services, fuel for heating, children’s clothing and mobile clinics on a daily basis, he added.
KRCS’ initiatives are contributing as much as possible to alleviating the crisis of the Syrians displaced from Aleppo, he noted, describing the crisis as “complicated and critical” that requires cooperation amongst relief organizations. He stressed that the “society will continue consulting with the parties interested in the humanitarian crisis so to as provide aid to Syrians in order to put an end to the big humanitarian disaster.”
Dr Sayer affirmed that the State of Kuwait under the leadership of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah AlAhmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has been offering distinguished efforts in the fields of humanitarian relief and healthcare services aiming to help our brothers in Syria. He expressed his appreciation to Kuwaiti donors for their donations that helped all Syrian people who are in dire need of most basic needs like food, means of heating and blankets for harsh winter. — KUNA