Kuwait marks two years of continued aid for Yemen

RIYADH: Since December of 2015, the ‘Kuwait By Your Side’ campaign had been providing non-stop relief aid and humanitarian support to the Yemeni people after the war there crippled the country. The campaign issued a report from its headquarters in Aden, Yemen, recounting two years of humanitarian efforts. Despite the ongoing war as well as the huge natural and logistic obstacles, the campaign managed to deliver necessities in addition to food and water to the most devastated areas in Yemen.

The campaign distributed a sum of $100 million worth of relief aid and materials in three phases with each costing $17, $23, $53 million respectively. The current chair of the ‘Kuwait By Your Side’ campaign Raed Ibrahim said that the past two years saw the campaign aiding well-off Yemenis as well as the poor, affirming that the current situation in Yemen had left everyone affected. In coordination with the legitimate Yemeni government in Aden, the campaign focused its efforts in providing water, education, health, refuge and food. The campaign was launched by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as part of various Kuwaiti groups providing relief aid to war-stricken Yemen.

In other news, Kuwait’s Patients Helping Fund (PHF) on Sunday launched a clinic at Aden International Airport in Yemen, which aims to provide urgent healthcare to incoming and outgoing travellers. In a statement in Riyadh, PHF said the airport expressed gratitude for the initiative, which witnessed the construction of the clinic and stocking it up with necessary medicine and equipment. The Kuwait-established fund has made tangible contributions to healthcare facilities in the governorate of Aden, providing them with equipment and ambulances, mentioned the airport’s director Tareq Abdo. —KUNA