Kuwait Food Bank to receive zakat al-fitr

KUWAIT: Kuwait Food Bank announced that it will receive zakat al-fitr on a 24/7 basis through SMS messages, on the bank’s website or by visiting the bank’s headquarters in Adailiya until Eid Al-Fitr’s eve. The food bank’s manager Salem Al-Hamar said zakat al-fitr equals the value of 2.5 kg of rice per person. He added that the zakat payer will have to pay it for himself, his wife, his children whom he still supports and his parents if he supports them.

Co-ops elections

Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor’s (MSAL) assistant undersecretary for co-operative societies’ affairs Abdul Aziz Shuaib said on recounting the votes based on contests made in the elections conducted in three co-ops, the final results previously announced by the ministry proved to be correct. Shuaib said the ministry recounted the votes of Sabah AlNasser, Nuzha and Ali Sabah Al-Salem co-ops and found the results it had previously announced were correct.

On a different concern, Shuaib said MSAL is taking seriously social media reports about a co-op throwing fruits and vegetables in garbage dumpsters, from where some of the employees of co-op and the companies working with it retrieve them. Shuaib said on conducting field investigations, MSAL found that the co-op had been buying more fruits and vegetables than it sells daily, which resulted in some of them going bad. He added that the co-op was instructed to investigate the matter and adjust its purchase policies.