Kuwait National Library highlights importance of charity in exhibition
Cultural activities resume after long hiatus
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 6, (KUNA): Director General of Kuwait National Library Sheikha Rasha Nayef AlJaber Al-Sabah affirmed on Sunday keenness to enhance societal awareness of the importance of charitable work in the development and wellbeing of societies.
Sheikha Rasha Al-Sabah added to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on the sidelines of the launch of the two-day exhibition organized by the library on the occasion of the “International Day of Charity Work”, that this exhibition represents a launch for the library’s cultural activities after a long hiatus due to the corona pandemic.
She stated that more than 13 voluntary and charitable organizations participating in the exhibition display their services in the charitable field, whether inside or outside Kuwait. She pointed out that the exhibition also includes manual and artistic works that reflect the charitable work carried out by these voluntary bodies in order to raise community awareness of the reality of this work and its needy and contribute to their assistance.
Awareness
Sheikha Rasha Al-Sabah indicated that this exhibition comes in implementation of the message of the Kuwait National Library, which seeks to raise awareness among members of society in various fields, especially the cultural field.
In turn, the founder of the Voluntary Good Makers team, Hani Al-Mazkour, said in a similar statement to KUNA that his team participating in the exhibition was launched in 2019 and aims to accomplish one charitable work every month in cooperation with a charitable organization in Kuwait.
Al-Mazkour mentioned that the team cooperates with other charities to bring Kuwaiti volunteer work to the highest organizational levels in line with Kuwait’s vision of charitable work, pointing out the importance of participating in any community initiative that would advance and develop Kuwait.
He said that the team aims to have volunteers contribute all their marketing capabilities to deliver the idea of the charitable project to the largest possible segment inside Kuwait and to participate in the completion of the charitable work that has been marketed.
For her part, Director-General of the Kuwait Society for the Care of the Disabled, Dr. Elham Al-Hamdan told KUNA that the society is one of the Kuwaiti charitable societies that provide
rehabilitation services such as psychotherapy and speech difficulties, as well as educational services for the disabled from 5 to 18 years old.
Al-Hamdan indicated that the association displays its first works in the exhibition through the arts submitted by its members, noting that it “welcomes all volunteers who wish to participate in the treatment and rehabilitation of the disabled, play with children, draw with them and participate in many activities,
as it welcomes the volunteering of any person specialized in a specific field that can provide services to the disabled.
She stated that the Kuwait Society for the Care of the Handicapped aims to integrate the disabled with all their peers in society, to empower and educate them, as well as to employ them in the future.
For his part, Farouk Khazal, a volunteer in the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, said that the society is participating
in the exhibition to introduce its local and external works. Khazal added that the association is currently working to sponsor science students from needy families inside Kuwait, especially orphaned students, and is also working to provide various humanitarian aid, including what it has done recently by providing medical aid and ambulances to Lebanon, and during the blessed Eid al Adha, it distributed food aid to Syrian refugee camps in Jordan.