Al-Najat Society aspires for international recognition
Kuwait’s Al-Najat Charity Society aspires to be among the humanitarian organizations recognized by the UN to enable it contribute to global humanitarian plans, visions and strategies, a society official said. Dr Jaber Al-Wanda, Al-Najat Deputy Director General, said engagement of Kuwait charitable organizations with their international counterparts helped the formers promote their humanitarian action in a transparent and institutionalized manner.
Al-Najat, one of Kuwait’s oldest civil charitable societies, has many partnerships with American humanitarian organizations and is looking forward to expand this partnerships to international organizations, Al-Wanda said. AlWanda is in New York to participate in activities related to the UN sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2015-30. He said Kuwaiti laws that organized humanitarian and charitable action were among the oldest in the region, but participation in international meetings “helps us to gain expertise that contribute to the development of laws and regulations in the State of Kuwait.”
Al-Wanda said Kuwait’s humanitarian and charitable societies were facing growing responsibilities now after the UN honoring of Kuwait as a Humanitarian Center and His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as the Humanitarian Leader. “This makes the (Kuwaiti) societies work constantly on developing their performance and operations to be internationally recognized,” he said. Al-Najat, said Al-Wanda, participated in a number of UNGA sideline activities with the objectives of achieving the SDGs, which aimed at addressing poverty, improvement of education and health services, fighting extremism and extremist ideologies.
The society presented some recommendations and plans it believed would improve the global humanitarian action. “Our participation aims at benefiting from international expertise in order to place a roadmap and an action plan contribute to helping the needy at a larger scale,” he added. Al-Wanda called on Kuwait’s non-governmental charitable societies to participate in international humanitarian events to benefit from them. — KUNA