18 violations in one week

KUWAIT: Eighteen charity violations were detected during 93 field visits made to various mosques in the first week of the holy month of Ramadan, said Hana Al-Hajri, Assistant Undersecretary for Social Development Affairs at the Ministry of

Social Affairs and Labor. The violations included setting up 10 illegal clothes collection booths, not following MSAL’s schedule for charity collection and collecting charity for an unlicensed charity project, Hajri added.

The violations also included collecting cash donations in two mosques, illegal calls to collect leftover food, a telecom company sending text messages urging the public to donate without a prior license and an unlicensed foreign body calling for collecting donations in Kuwait, she added.