KFAED gives additional grant to UNICEF

KUWAIT CITY, April 23, (KUNA): Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) on Thursday signed an agreement with UNICEF whereby the Kuwaiti fund would give an additional grant worth USD 340,000 as a contribution to financing a water project in Gaza Strip.

KFAED said in a statement that the project envisages securing water to more than 280,000 people and setting up sewage networks.

The accord was signed by KFAED’s Director General Marwan Al-Ghanem and UNICEF’s bureau representative in the Gulf Al-Tayeb Adam.

The grant is a follow-up to a USD three million worth of grant the fund has given to UNICEF to finance the venture.

Last year, KFAED and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed a grant agreement valued at KD 605,000 (two million US dollars) in Kuwait.

Aiming to back highly vulnerable internally displaced persons and host communities project in Yemen, the grant is part of Kuwait’s commitment announced during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly to provide USD 20 million to alleviate the humanitarian situation in Yemen, the fund said in a statement.

The grant targets improving living conditions of internally displaced families and of their host communities and improve access to basic services for them in a number of cities in Yemen including Sana’a, Aden, Al-Hudaydah and Marib, for approximately 200,000 people dispersed over numerous camp-like settings, it said.

It is also meant to provide basic building materials for temporary shelters, rehabilitate and improve sites’ infrastructure, which will include rehabilitation and improvement initiatives of water sources, establishment of water channels and sewage system, waste management and road repairs, and supply and installation of solar-powered street lighting in about 25 sites, it added

This is the fifth donation offered by the Kuwaiti fund to the UNHCR, the fund added.